Word: parchments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...filled snail shell. For the regular edition, Publisher Joseph Foret set the price at a mere $300 a copy. But one copy, billed as "the most expensive book in the world," was tagged at $25,000. The Frenchman who succumbed (he insisted on anonymity) got a volume of 200 parchment pages that had required the skins of 100 sheep, plus eight watercolors that originally served as models for Dali's lithographs, plus three extra sets of lithographs on special papers. Publisher Foret is quite reconciled to having this rare volume drop out of sight for years, expects it will...
...Warriors is marred by the feeling that Philosopher Gray was more an observer than a participant. Though he writes of his own fears in combat, there is a curious parchment quality, underlined by a self-conscious literary style ("The great god Mars tries to blind us when we enter his realm"). Still, there are brilliant flashes: the appealing face of a young German deserter, smiling in death after being cut down from a tree where the SS had hanged him; the bewilderment and misery of French girls who had "collaborated" simply because they had fallen in love...
...officials of the mellow (founded in 1768) London publishing firm of John Murray, Ltd., unlocked for a TIME reporter a keepsake secured from a best-selling client of long ago, the amorous, glamorous 19th century poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. Inside a musty tin box were dozens of tiny parchment packages, each inscribed with the name and date of a comely comrade, each containing a specimen of the lady's locks. Handsomest of the hairlooms was a lustrous, 2½ ft. pony tail, still scented with the aroma of pomade, which had been snipped from a Spanish sefiorita...
...town of St. Charles, Ill. (pop. 7,700), 35 miles west of Chicago, Leading Citizen E. J. (for Edward John) Baker last week handed out three sizable checks. To the town's E. J. Baker Working Fund went a no-strings-attached $100,000, bringing the total that parchment-fragile Colonel Baker, 90, has given the town so far this year to $300,000. To the St. Charles school district went $75.000. Father Walter Ryan accepted a $25.000 check for St. Patrick's parochial school, gasped: "Is it real? Never do that again; I'll have...
...cypress) and interred in the most sacred spot in Christendom-below the Bernini altar near St. Peter's supposed grave, whose discovery the Pope himself announced in 1950. Buried with the Pope was a red bag containing a sample of every Vatican coin minted during his reign, a parchment copy of the eulogy read at the final funeral Mass and the pieces of his broken Fisherman's Ring...