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Cranach Was Hidden. Going from "castle to castle" between world wars, she restored some 500 works for fellow bluebloods. She learned how to smooth over chipped spots ("like filling a tooth"), repaint damaged hands and noses, replace frayed lining, spruce up dull paint with a coat of bright varnish. As she became more skilled, she repaired masterpieces by Rubens, Tiepolo and Velasquez. Once, working on a dark, somber painting by the 16th century Italian Jacopo Palma, she found a whole covey of saints and angels hiding under the grime. Another time, she was called in to restore an unusual Lucas...
This was too much. Last week, neat and spruce in a brown suit, Remer sat in the dock of the Brunswick court, accused of slandering the July 20 conspirators...
Improving the physical condition of Dudley has been one of Fischelis' main concerns. With aid from the University, the dining hall has been repainted and has had drapes added. The game room has been renovated, and an attempt has been made to spruce up the entire hall. The undergraduate House Committee has voted to purchase a television...
Before dawn one day last week, a hunting party of five men sloshed through the rain-soaked woods of Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia with their two Little River duck dogs, Dusty and Tootsie. At the rocky shore of Lake Mestock the party divided, settled down to wait in their spruce and fern blinds on opposite sides of the lake. They didn't have to wait long. Just after 8 o'clock a flock of nearly 200 ducks circled over the lake and landed on the water some 1,000 yards off the west shore...
...Date of the Crime. The Katyn (rhymes with sateen) massacre was first reported by the Nazis in April 1943. On a spruce-covered hill overlooking the Dnieper, near Smolensk, Russia, they had found, stacked in mass graves, the bodies of some 4,000 Polish officers. Each was bound with hands behind his back; each had been shot through the base of the skull. The Nazis charged that the Russians had done it. The Polish officers, they said, were those captured by the Russians when they invaded Poland in September 1939. The Russians had shipped them from various prison camps...