Word: portraits
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Reader's Digest asked and was given permission to reprint the story. Later, after all concerned at Memorial Hospital had had a chance to read and discuss it, we were asked if we could supply Memorial with 450,000 reprints of the story and its cover portrait...
...Like other aristocrats of his time, the Master had been a forward-looking sort. It had struck him or his heirs that vandals might break into his tomb some day, and disturb his rest by injuring the head of his mummy. Just in case, a substitute head, a stone portrait of himself, was carved and placed in his tomb as a reserve resting place for his spirit...
...fear of the Master's ghost, they smashed his reserve head as well. Dug up by archaeologists in 1936, the pieces were plastered together again, finally sold to the Metropolitan. On exhibition at the museum last week, the proudly tilted head was one of the earliest examples of portrait sculpture known. The nostrils (to Egyptians the seat of life) had been carved with special care, presumably so that the Master could breathe without trouble...
Champion. Kirk Douglas as a Ring Lardner pug; a ringside portrait with a punch (TIME, April...
Champion. Kirk Douglas as a Ring Lardner pug, a portrait with a punch (TIME, April...