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...Madrid's Prado for $55,000. It took the Prado's experts nine months to clean and restore it. Today, the Adoration hangs in a place of honor in one of the Prado's newly inaugurated salons, fresh with all the unearthly radiance and splendor that El Greco's brushes originally imparted, and once again the permanent testament to his great art that the Toledo stranger originally intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: EL GRECO'S LAST GLORIA | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Like the evening star, Advocate members returned last evening and restored their door to its diurnal splendor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vendetta Perils Bow St. Mural | 11/21/1956 | See Source »

...rhetorical splendor Garrison demanded that the President act on the "six deep and savage scars," responsible for both spiritual and physical demoralization...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: The Case of The Cigar And The Swelling Arm | 9/28/1956 | See Source »

...Teds' notion of sartorial splendor ranges from a caricature of Edwardian elegance to the zoot padding of a Harlem hepcat. Their hair is elaborately and expensively coiffured in long, wavy styles that range from the "D.A." (for Duck's Arse) to the "TV Roll" and the "Tony Curtis." Their jargon is a mixture of Cockney rhyming slang and U.S. jive talk in which a road is a "frog" (from the phrase frog-and-toad, which rhymes with road), a suit is a "whistle" (from whistle-and-flute), and a girl is a "bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Teds | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...IMPORTANT POLITICAL CONFERENCE OF THE POSTWAR WORLD headlined Cairo's Al Ahram. "These three peace men," said the captive Egyptian press, would bring sanity to a mad world, and in this meeting of Europe, Asia and Africa would create a "Third World Force." Tito too basked in the splendor of the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Accentuating the Negative | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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