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But then reporters realized that if real people instead of mannequins had inhabited the village, only a few would have survived. Inside the standing houses, Venetian blinds had been tossed around like bundles of spears, furniture hurled in grotesque stacks, cloth torn and seared. A refrig erator had exploded from...
A pair of murals painted in the museum transept during this period aroused a new furor when their artist, Jacob Rubenstein, was accused of developing his commissioned themes into anti-Nazi propaganda. One of the pictures portrays a figure in jack-boots and a Sam Brown belt whipping a group...
In Rajputana in central India lies the high rock of Chitor. "The swell of its sides," wrote Rudyard Kipling, "follows the form of a ship-from bow to stern more than three miles long and from three to five hundred feet high." Four centuries ago, in the land battleship of...
The Long Vow. Abandoned, Chitor became a haunt of tigers, one of a thousand Hindu shrines, and today the only recurring evocation of its stirring last days is the curse which may sometimes be heard on Indian lips: "By the sin of the sack of Chitor." The Rajput armorers became...
Last week, while awaiting the DeMille design, Secretary Talbott sent out a memo suggesting that all hands play down the Hollywood angle. "It's getting out of hand; people better understand that we're still making the final decision, not Hollywood." Cracked an academy officer: "We've...