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...some 2,000,000 visitors roam the marble vastness of Washington's National Gallery. Its 4½ acres of art treasures cover the history of Western painting from Byzantium to Bellows (George). The visitors always linger over such masterpieces as Giorgione's Adoration of the Shepherds and Raphael's Alba Madonna, but their favorite is one of the gallery's least-assuming pictures-Auguste Renoir's A Girl with a Watering...
...schoolboys know that Raphael wrote a century of sonnets. Fewer know or care what a century in cricket is. In cricket, a century is 100 (or more) runs scored by a batsman during a single innings. Last week England's Len Button, playing for Surrey, joined the select group of 13 cricketers who have made their 100th century. * When Hutton scored his 100th run, the crowd at London's Kennington Oval rose to its feet to clap. His teammates jogged across the field to shake his hand. Cricketer Hutton, 35, acknowledged the applause by lifting his cap. That...
...Jesus? "The catechism of the Jew is his calendar," said famed 19th Century Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. There are five major festivals in the Jewish year, but the weekly observance of the Sabbath-from Friday's sunset to Saturday after sundown-as a day in which no work may be done, except for self-protection or to save life, is the core of Jewish religious practice. Rabbi Bernstein takes pains to point out how this custom of a day of rest "hewn from the social consciousness of a little desert tribe became in time an established practice...
...objects (from old masters to old coins and trinkets) carted off from Berlin* and Dresden museums since 1945. After months of temporizing, Russian authorities finally answered an East German museum official's request for the return of the masterpieces with a flat no. Their reason: the treasures (including Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Correggio's Holy Night, Giorgione's Venus) were legitimate "war booty...
...Leverett-Dunster matches Bunny Lew Brown defeated Paul Trinchieri, 6-1, 6-3; Funster Mal Bell defeated Neil Shulman, 6-3, 7-5; Dunster's Pete Randall defeated Sam McClerd, 6-4, 6-2; Jim McCormick of Leverett defeated Hugh Raphael, 6-2, 6-3; Dwight Bartlett of the Hutch defeated Stan Gill, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4; and Bunny Ed Wilford defeated Don Keller...