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...Duce, was reluctantly packing Botticelli's masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Titian's Flora. At the Bargello it was Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael's Nuptials of the Virgin and Bellini's Pietà. From Padua, Giotto's Crucifixion, elaborately and tenderly packed, set out for Paris and from Venice, Giorgione's The Tempest and Mantegna's Saint George. Benito Mussolini accepted but one rebuff, from the Vatican, which held to its policy that the fine museums in Vatican City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: All the Italians | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

Pieter Vos was a sallow, bandy-legged little city boy, who hated his menial job and poor prospects, jumped at the chance to make a pile as a rubber planter. When the rubber company took him on and paid him a month's salary in advance Piet had big visions. They began to get knocked out of him on the boat. He was horribly seasick. The stewards bullied him. His cabinmate bullied him, made him sleep on deck while he entertained a girl below. The reality of the tropics was so much too much for him that he immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Dutchman | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

Gradually, painfully, Piet began to find his niche. A friendly planter got him a native housekeeper; her respectful affection and competent managing gave him some degree of comfort. He worked hard, never took a holiday until the doctor made him, saved every guilder. About the time rubber prices began to boom Piet's antlike qualities landed him a really good job on an isolated island. Then his boss catspawed him into marrying a European mistress who was getting troublesome. Piet, who was innocent enough to think the girl was in love with him, was overjoyed, gave his faithful brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Dutchman | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

Smaller Universe. Much starlight is absorbed in space before it reaches the earth. Dr. Piet Van de Kamp, Leander McCormick Observatory, and Dr. Robert Julius Trumpler, Lick Observatory, measured the absorption, concluded that astronomers who have based their measurements of star distances on the assumption that space does not interfere with light, may have overestimated the size of the universe. Cosmic dust, meteors and free-electrons-in-space are possible absorbers of starlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Astronomers | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

When Consul General Robert Piet Kisner climbed aboard the Orient Express at Paris one night last week, bound for his new post in Athens as U. S. Minister to Greece, he was performing an act of far more significance than taking a train ride. It was the first time a consular officer had proceeded to a new post without going to Washington to confer with the Department of State; furthermore, Mr. Kisner's appointment was the first important application of the Rogers Act of 1924, which combined the consular and diplomatic services into a single "Foreign Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Consuls, Diplomats | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

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