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To the Bible. Like many, a Dutch townsman who struck it rich, Rembrandt splurged wildly, bought up collections of armor and costumes that he could use as painting props, moved into a palatial house on the edge of Amsterdam's Jewish Quarter. His drawings and etchings spread his fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Master of Light & Shadow | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

NBC's Truth or Consequences last week brought this hoary Greek joke up to date with a sequence about a vacuum-cleaner salesman who innocently calls on a housewife, is interrupted in mid-spiel by the arrival of the husband, and almost instantly finds himself in the center of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

With this novel, Dr. A. J. Cronin proves himself the greatest living practitioner of the Victorian novel. The hero is that Mauve Decade martyr, the unconventional artist struggling hopelessly for recognition from a conventional world. Its "bohemian" artists and its fusty gentry are furnished forth with stock-company props and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All for Art | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

A Mobile Museum. What revenge Artos takes when he returns to find himself cuckolded may be left to the discovery of readers whose hair does not curl easily. The props with which Author Treece outfits his plot appear to be as accurate as a mobile museum of medieval antiquities, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Upsetting the Round Table | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

"The Chair Votes Aye." On the second key vote, to fix the support level on wheat, pressures from the stubbles cut hard into the Administration's ranks. Six farm belt Republicans (Colorado's Allott, Kansas' Carlson and Schoeppel, Nebraska's Curtis and Hruska, Wisconsin's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The First Harvest | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

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