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Along the poplar-flickering roads south of Paris last week rolled two camions each bearing an enormous head. They were bound for the little village of Le Mas-Rillier, which has sunned itself for 2,000 years on a mountain top near Lyons, overlooking the Rhone Valley. The heads were those of a Virgin and Child. Joined to concrete bodies, they will complete the largest statue in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Largest Statue | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strange Record | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

...Parson") Teague, chief editorial writer of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, leaned toward the microphone and drawled out the name of the landowner-sweepstakes winner for 1938 in the "C. A.'s" Plant-to-Prosper campaign. Looking completely confused and happy, grey-haired Farmer H. L. Majure of Poplar Grove. Ark. made his way to the platform and was handed a check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plant-to-Prosper | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...though seen from a distant hilltop. It is a walled city of the fifteenth century, shining in the sunlight among poplar, plane and cypress. The river Adige like a thread of silver. We hear faintly the sound of many bells which grows louder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 10/9/1936 | See Source »

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