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...into the hands of collectors and into museums, such meticulous care was rarely taken. Paintings have been plastered on walls from floor to ceiling, hung in dark corners, sometimes illuminated by smoking candles. Even today the museumgoer in Europe can find himself trapped in darkness in Madrid's Prado,* engulfed in fog in London's National Gallery or lost in Florence's unlighted Pitti Palace on a rainy...
...Long ranked as Europe's darkest museum, the Prado has begun the long-overdue installation of a scientific scheme of lighting (mixture of blue, yellow and rose neon to approximate sunlight). Predicted Prado Director Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor: "By next year I think we will be able to say, 'Now the whole museum is illuminated...
...before he found at the bottom of a pile of some 60 dusty paintings a gloomy landscape that could have been painted by El Greco. Beneath the grime of nearly 100 years of neglect, the picture proved to be the long sought masterpiece. Said one of Madrid's Prado Museum officials: "The brush strokes of El Greco are inimitable, unmistakable. I say it, the director says it, the restorers say it. The picture is El Greco." Valued at $100,000, it will now hang once again in the Real Colegio del Corpus Christi...
...appeal trial brought a deluge of protests and pleas for clemency from world liberals and Marxists, including British Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Scientist Julian Huxley, Peru's President Manuel Prado, Hungarian Writer Paul Igno-tus, French ex-Fellow Traveler Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as from such Communists as Artist Pablo Picasso and Poet Louis Aragon (who was later outraged to learn that the capitalist press knew of his appeal). Seemingly impressed, the Kadar regime said last week that, "pending re-examination of the case," it had "suspended" the death sentences of Intellectuals Obersovszky and Gali. But three days later...
...Vice Admiral Roque Saldias, the Navy Minister. The reputed cost was $32 million, payable over five years, a heavy drain for a nation whose record navy budget is only $13 million, but no complaint was heard as long as Dictator Manuel Odria was in power. After President Manuel Prado took office last July, navy officers and newsmen began some critical digging. They reported that before ordering the subs, Admiral Saldias had turned down a U.S. offer of two World War II-type heavy cruisers at a bargain $2,000,000 each, payable over 30 years...