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...eyed son from doctor to doctor, dipping deep into his meager savings. Finally Donald's illness was diagnosed: subdural hydroma, or water on the brain, usually the result of a head injury that tears the tissue surrounding the brain, allowing cerebro-spinal fluid to become pocketed under the parchment-like membrane between skull and brain. An operation to relieve the pressure was unsuccessful...
Slowly and laboriously, cramped by rheumatism, Mère Geneviève perfected her technique of etching. Last year she completed her major work to date: a series showing the 14 Stations of the Cross, bound together in parchment with four other etchings. When Modern Painter Marie Laurencin saw the pictures, she was so enthusiastic that she begged the editor of Figaro Littéraire to let her announce her discovery. Her verdict: "[They have] the faith of the great primitives shining in each of their faces, with a terror that recalls only Goya." Almost overnight, Mère Genevi...
Crew coach Tom Bolles gave Bingham a scroll, singed by all the 34 staff members. The scroll measures 10 1/2 by 14 inches, is on parchment lettered in Old English and reads...
Last week Lady Astor drove down from London to pay him a visit. "Oh, Nancy," Shaw murmured to his longtime friend as she sat gently stroking the parchment skin on his still defiantly bearded white head, "I want to sleep, to sleep." These quiet words were among the last that voluble Bernard Shaw was heard to speak. When the end came, Shaw met it with a faint quizzical smile that might have been construed as satisfied...
...individuals is the faceless Moloch known to them only by his title, the Collector of Internal Revenue. But officials in the art-loving, 13th Century Italian republic of Siena were tax collectors of a different sort. When the camarlingo (chamberlain) completed his six months' term, he had his parchment records bound between two wooden panels, and commissioned some of the republic's most eminent artists to decorate the covers with tempera paintings. In Florence's Strozzina Gallery last week, some examples of such fancied-up account books were on public display for the first time...