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...sent down El Greco's View of Toledo and John Singer Sargent's portrait of Padre Sebastiano. Mrs. George Bellows lent her husband's famous picture of Edith Cavell. The Whitney Museum, the Phillips Memorial in Washington, the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, all removed priceless works from their walls to send to Knoedler's in Manhattan, because an art critic liked them...
...revealed, however. The hideaway depicted as amply large for the books which are to be transported there in case of emergency. He pointed out that in the chaos existing during a bombing or an invasion, it would be easy for looters to make away with many of the priceless treasures if everybody knew where they were located...
...northwestern lake district. By the 13th Century, the place called itself "Sovereign Great Novgorod" and its Kremlin was already about as old as any structure in the U.S. is now. The Kremlin's newer stone walls were begun in 1302. Through the years the city accumulated hundreds of priceless relics, such as the great Twelfth Century bronze doors of the Cathedral of St. Sophia...
...Cotzias showed him the town. One of the sights included the National Archeological Museum. For more than an hour, Göring stayed in the Salon of Mycenaean Antiquities, pop-eyed and well-nigh drooling over the collection of golden swords, daggers, goblets, vases, collars, crematory urns and other priceless objects of pre-Homeric craftsmanship. The next year His Honor visited Berlin and saw Göring, who immediately said: "How's the Mycenaean collection? Is that beautiful stuff! Ach, du lieber...
...Army's famed Colonel Robert Olds, a big-bomber fiend who started out as a private in World War I, this organization has complete responsibility for delivering all U.S.-made British aircraft in Canada. While speeding up deliveries, the new system will also give Army pilots priceless experience in flying big bombers. Because so many U.S. bombers are going to Great Britain, the Army itself is woefully short of ships for such training...