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Sections of the carefully detailed Gothic craftsmanship seemed like Van Eyck's work. But the red-brown robe was uninspired and dull, and the floor area was badly wrinkled...
Underneath the robe was the original paint, heavily damaged, but identified by Richardson as "characteristic Van Eyck color-a clear, deep crimson." As to the value of Detroit's find, one of 30-odd Van Eycks in existence, Richardson pointed out that Manhattan's Frick Collection paid a reported $750,000 for a Virgin and Child by Van Eyck and his follower, Petrus Christus. Already one dealer has offered Detroit $400,000 for its St. Jerome. But Director Richardson had a firm answer: the painting is not for sale...
...aisles were thick with red carpeting, as if Governor General Vincent Massey himself was about to grace some extraordinary state affair. But when the houselights darkened and spotlights shone on the home-team dugout, the only notable to appear was James J. Parker, proud in a blue silk robe trimmed with white. He marched to the ring, wary-eyed and handsome, protected, for the time being, by his seconds and five skirling bagpipers from Canada's 48th Highlanders. Next came Archie, his entourage six uniformed U.S. airmen and his only music the raucous booing of a home-town crowd...
...spoke stalwart Victor Mature, whose musculature has beefed up three of Hollywood's Bible epics (Samson and Delilah, The Robe, Demetrius and the Gladiators). "By pretending to know 'inside hot stuff' on the private lives of some stars, this man Shuler shows himself completely devoid of charity. It's a pretty un-Christian thing...
...French and German scholar, Ford published his first book, Robe and Sword: The Regrouping of the French Aristocracy after Louis XIV, in 1953. He gives alternate courses in French and German history when lecturing...