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...sheriff-with Johnson's life and her own body as the stakes. Minnie takes that game by slipping some cards from her stocking, saves Johnson a second time by flourishing a pistol at the molasses-witted miners, marches off with Dick, singing at the curtain, "Addio, mia dolce terra, / Addio mia California...
...among crooked and gullible dealers. In 1914, they went to work on their masterpieces-three outsized Etruscan figures. As model for one standing warrior, they used a photograph of a little statue that is now in Berlin's Old Museum. For the big head, they used a small terra-cotta vase-head that-ironically-is now owned by the Met. And for the second standing warrior, they used a photograph of a figure on an Etruscan sarcophagus that the British Museum had bought. Perhaps, being conscientious forgers, they would never have used the sarcophagus had they known that some...
Granted the U.S. requires tremendous air and naval power, but "they also serve who have their two feet planted on terra firma." Could not Artist Artzybasheff have included at least one dogface soldier on his Jan. 6 cover...
...Microbiologist Hans Zinsser. Inspired by Zinsser, Enders switched to bacteriology. But inspiration, he insists, has little place in the practical results of research. "As a rule, the scientist takes off from the manifold observations of his predecessors . . . The one who places the last stone and steps across to the terra firma of accomplished discovery gets all the credit." Thus Dr. Jonas Salk got most of the credit for developing polio vaccine. But it was Enders' patient work that first demonstrated how to grow the dangerous polio virus in other than nerve tissue. That work got Enders and his associates...
Other highlights of the summer were discoveries of fragmentary Byzantine wall paintings in a large bath, and terra friezes dating from...