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Fantastic Animal (overleaf) is one of about 100 Luristan bronzes in Brundage's collection; he calls it the finest he has ever seen. The mysterious horsemen of Luristan (mountainous western Iran) flourished a thousand and more years before the time of Christ, left no ruins of cities but only crude tombs crammed with weapons and splendid bronze harness equipage. Brundage's Indian Parvati is one of many he owns representing the Indian mountain goddess. (Some of the others, Brundage recalls, were held up as "pornographic" by U.S. customs.) Despite its elongated ears, topknot and neat mole like...
...thousand old wives' tales hold that there is a close connection between a woman's illnesses during pregnancy and the health of her baby, but medical researchers were long unable to prove anything except the damaging effects of German measles in the first three months of gestation (TIME, Dec. 31, 1956). Then came the 1957 midsummer warning that an epidemic of Asian influenza was imminent, and physicians braced themselves for a test. Last week, in the London medical journal Lancet, two Irish investigators reported that Asian flu is a potent cause of fetal abnormalities, many of them fatal...
...Thousand Yards from Work. To be closer to his work, Mortimer built a nine-room house about a thousand yards from the company building in White Plains, N.Y., dubbed it "Done Commuting." He is devoted to his family, seldom brings his briefcase home or does business entertaining there. He and his wife Elizabeth (everybody calls her "Jerry") were married 32 years ago (his first wife died in childbirth), have a married daughter Mary and three sons: Charles Greenough, 33, and John, 30, both married and working in advertising, and Lee, 19, a sophomore at Denison University...
Outlining difficulties of the tour, Henning described the wide variety of conditions under which productions must be given. Audiences will vary from parlor-room size to groups of several thousand, and the size of the stage will also not be standard, necessitating re-blocking by the director for practically every performance...
...short weighing by an inspector from the Bureau of Weights and Measures, and he turned up as ordered at bureau headquarters. There, suave, mouse-browed Director Frederick J. Loughran and Inspector Bert Smith told him about a "new system." Seligman was simply to pay Loughran "a couple of thousand dollars" to kill the summons. When he protested, an inspector told him: "If you don't pay up, you will have to give 16 ounces to the pound, and you know you can't exist that...