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When the Army transport James Parker docked at a Manhattan pier last fortnight, nobody on board would talk about the 40 crates in the hold. The War Department was only slightly more talkative: it admitted that the crates contained a priceless museum-load of old masters. The paintings had been brought to the U.S. from destroyed or damaged German museums. Washington's National Gallery of Art had arranged (through its board chairman, Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone) to keep them "in trust for the people of Germany or the other rightful owners...
Uneasy Secret. So priceless a possession was Magic that the U.S. high command lived in constant fear that the Japs would discover the secret, change their code machinery, force U.S. cryptographers to start all over again...
...million postwar plan to increase its 7.21 acres of floor space by about 30% (TIME, Jan. 29). If the customers can take it, they will be able to see the $1 billion conglomeration of 5,000 years of art-everything from South American bone nose flutes to priceless Raphaels and Rembrandts...
...stained glass were painstakingly removed during World War I, buried out of harm's way. (No 20th-century glassworkers could duplicate the Canterbury windows, thought to have come from the studios of Chartres during the 13th Century.) Putting them back was a time-consuming task, and the last priceless piece was leaded into place just in time to be taken out again for World War II. Last week the replacement process began, again, as skilled workers fixed the first piece in its proper setting. Said a BBC commentator: "It will take a long time . . . there are not many craftsmen...
...gallon official title: American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas). Last week, waiting in Washington, Jayne had his worries. About Peking: "I hope [the Japs] treat it like Paris." About the temples and museum in Honan Province: what of the priceless, encrusted Shang and Chou bronzes? As for Japan: "There is some wonderful old wooden architecture there...