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...Dutch Protestant reluctance to accept sacred subjects and they avoided the upsetting, never-distant world of war and human suffering. Only Rembrandt had the courage to take all human life, spiritual as well as material, for his province. Rembrandt overshadowed last week's exhibition, and also dominated its pendant show of Dutch prints and drawings. Rembrandt's etching Faust (above) asserts a force of imagination foreign to his environment. With such pictures, Rembrandt outstripped even the glorious age into which he had been born. In advancing his art beyond fashionable portraiture, Rembrandt chose poverty, increasing neglect, and immortality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art, Nov. 8, 1954 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...Palace makes a bright pendant on any hotel chain. Opened in 1875 by Mrs. Johnston's grandfather, U.S. Senator William Sharon, who made millions in the Comstock lode and never got over his miner's habit of carrying a pistol, the $5,000,000 Palace was then considered the most luxurious hotel in the world. It had 800 rooms, and the smallest was 16 ft. square. Sarah Bernhardt stayed in an eight-room, suite with her parrot and baby tiger; General Grant came as a Civil War hero, had to mumble speeches when he lost his false teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sheraton Adds a Link | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...next afternoon the President took a few minutes off to pose with the First Lady for photographers on the White House south lawn. Mamie, resplendent in a white silk dress, proudly fingered a new diamond-studded gold pendant, Ike's anniversary present. When a photographer suggested that she put her arm around the President, Mamie laughed and nudged Ike. "Oh no," she exclaimed. "You're the one who's supposed to put your arm around me-" Ike blushed under his tan and declined to hug his wife in public; Mamie affectionately hooked her arm through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Romantic Evening | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...Baltimore she killed an old-lady neighbor in her 80s, Mrs. Clara Post, by simply pushing her over a bannister into a stairwell. That way Rhoda got an opal pendant which Mrs. Post had promised to leave her when she died. Rhoda was seven then. Rhoda was a good student. In the old maids' school she tried earnestly to win the penmanship medal. When she lost it to another student, she snatched it from him at the annual school picnic, then shoved him off a dock and drowned him to cover the theft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sweet Child | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...voice of authority: "Let them go now; I take full responsibility," and waved the prisoners away. The peasants called her a Woman of the Sidhe, one with magic powers. Her fame spread. An elderly English liberal baronet followed her to a Donegal cottage, thrust a diamond pendant into her hand as he unsuccessfully proposed. Said Maud: "I thank you for the gracious thought, and your kindness shall not be wasted. This jewel will save this family from eviction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Death of a Patriot | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

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