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...ft.surface almost two years ago. His main guide was a faithful copy of the Last Supper painted by a follower named Andrea Solario in 1520, only 22 years after Leonardo had finished the mural. Solario's copy was destroyed during World War II, but Pelliccioli has a photograph of it and a vivid memory. First he took minute samplings of the surface where past restorers had painted on overlapping layers, then painstakingly scraped down to the original, finally swabbed over Leonardo's faded paint with a clear shellac fixative...
Amazing Resilience. His wearing day was still far from done. He had promised to speak at Salisbury (pop. 20,000), N.C. (site of the famed early-morning back-platform campaign photograph of Ike and Mamie in their dressing gowns), and he insisted on keeping the engagement. Late that afternoon, the Columbine landed at Charlotte. Ike was driven 40 miles along crowd-lined roads, spoke for eight minutes before 12,000 people-gathered to celebrate the 200th anniversary of North Carolina's Rowan County-and drove 40 miles more to Winston-Salem, where the Columbine was waiting...
Close-Up. In Tampa, Cigar Manufacturer Karl Cuesta, victim of a series of burglaries, complained to police that the camera he had rigged up in his factory to photograph marauders had been stolen...
...support of the Russian masses. Yet here one intriguing fact is relevant: the surprising absence of a buildup of Malenkov personally. Since the first week, when he made the key funeral speech, was proclaimed Premier and was shown snuggled up to Stalin and Mao in a doctored photograph, he has been neither seen nor heard from. China's Chou En-lai proposed the Korean talks and Molotov seconded them. Beria publicly redressed the "error" of the doctors' purges. Voroshilov announced the price cuts. Such popular gestures are the kind that might be presumed useful in building up Malenkov...
...Memorial Rooms, an outer reception room, and the main room, which contains Harry Widener's 3,500 books. The main room, made in carved English oak, was panelled by a London firm and put together here. Dominating the room is a huge portrait of Widener, painted from a photograph by Gabrielle Ferrier...