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Sold at auction: the world's second largest oil painting,* the Panthéon de la Guerre, 18,090 square feet of World War I battlefield scenes, completed in 1919 by a task force of more than 120 French artists and last exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933. Purchaser: Baltimore Restaurateur William H. Haussner, who bought the painting for $3,400 from the storage warehouse where it had lain unclaimed for the past seven years...
...their own. They unearthed Braille's remains, and, keeping a relic for themselves, sent the coffin to Paris. There, escorted by a column of blind men, each armed with a white cane, Braille's body was finally placed where Frenchmen felt it rightfully belonged-in the Panthéon, France's Westminster Abbey...
...Paris, not far from the Panthéon, is a crooked little byway once called the Rue des Postes. From that byway last week came two words in a combination new to physicists the world over: artificial radioactivity...
Around the platforms, which were at two levels, stretched on steel framework at an angle producing an optical illusion of startling actuality, was the 402 x 45-ft. oil painting, "La Panthéon de la Guerre" (TIME, May 2), showing last week for the first time outside of Paris...
...shrill voices from the ministerial seats, began to call for de Selves' resignation. In vain did the latter try to pacify the irate graybeards and others less bewhiskered; finally he was forced to put on his hat, thus suspending the session. A motion to transfer to le Panthéon, last resting place of France's great men, the bones of Jean Jaurés, Socialist, who was assassinated on the eve of the outbreak of the War, was passed by the Chamber by 346 to 110 votes, and by the Senate with only five opposing votes...