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...Wednesday following, Raphael Demos, associate Professor of Philosophy, will speak on aspects of progressive education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR GROUPS TO GATHER IN JOINT FORUM | 8/29/1944 | See Source »

...captured by a parachute unit dropped there by mistake. In sun-drenched Hyères, where the girls are dark and Saracen and the streets are lined with palms, the Germans still held. Fréjus, where Julius Caesar planted supplies for Gaul, was taken the first day. Saint-Raphael, a modest fishing village gone garish with the trappings of a modern coast resort, was quickly captured, too. But Cannes, its luxury hotels, meager beach, its dreams of gambling and fish, yachts and flowers still belonged to the Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Tactician's Dream | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...landing on the Hyères Islands off Cap Bénat-where the now sunken French fleet used to take its exercise on sunny days. A few hours later more parachutists and gliders landed beyond the Monts des Maures -the Moorish Mountains-that rise between Toulon and Saint-Raphael...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Tactician's Dream | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...rescued Italian art from 45 crates turned over by the Nazis to the Vatican (TIME, July 17). Last week they rubbed their eyes. Missing from the crates were 13 of the Naples' Museum's masterpieces, a scattering of lesser art works. Among the missing: a Raphael Madonna, Fra Filippo Lippi's Annunciation, Titian's Lavinia and Danae (value: between $500,000 and $800,000), Peter Breughel's The Blind Leading the Blind-the only Breughel in Italy. Total estimated value of the missing art (by Andy Mellon standards): from two to three million dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nudes for Hermann | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...lovely Greek Venus of Cyrene (see cut), a, marble carved in the style of Praxiteles by an unknown sculptor. The armless, headless Venus belongs to Rome's Terme Museum. ¶ Raphael's graceful Sposalizio (Marriage of the Virgin) from Milan's Brera Gallery. Painted about 1503, the Sposalizio, an early Raphael, is one of the world's best loved pictures. ¶ The famed "Ludovisi Throne,"* 5th Century B.C. Greek bas-relief, called The Birth of Venus. This work, thought to be an altar to Aphrodite, is one of the monuments of Greek art. ¶ Giorgione...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sanctuary | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

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