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...little refectory of Milan's Santa Maria delle Grazie. Next day Milanese climbed out of their shelters to behold what seemed almost a miracle: the two side walls of the refectory had collapsed, but the north and south walls still stood-like playing cards on edge. The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, remained intact under the sandbags protecting the north wall...
...formed crust of white mold, brought on by long contact with the rain-dampened sandbags. A fingertip touch would dent the pasty surface, and there seemed no way of removing the mold without flaking off the picture as well. The world had seen the last, apparently, of the Last Supper...
...seem near and crisp as bread on one's own table at home, and he could make even a little segment of sky as wide and mysterious as the sky itself. Beyond that, he could bind many different things, men and emotions into one unchanging harmony. The Last Supper incorporates all these powers, and more. It has been called, both in praise and dispraise, the most "literary" picture in history-and, overlaid with clumsy restorations, the picture did have somewhat the stilted look of ordinary illustration. But now, restored to an approximation of its original purity, it becomes once...
Distribution of football tickets in the Houses and the Union went smoothly last night as the H.A.A.'s new ticket program completed its first week. The majority of 3,200 tickets sold to undergraduates were handed out at supper time. The rest will go out at noon today...
...must train yourself to sneer at American cameras and to make vague, rueful references to the Leica that fell overboard. The mention of domestic wines is enough to excuse you, pale-faced, from the supper table, and the hesitation of American girls to accompany you almost immediately to "a little hotel you know" sets your head wagging in good-humored amazement...