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...French ambassador to the Vatican, it depicts the climactic moment in one of the liveliest of Greek legends. Young Achilles, dressed as a girl and hidden among the daughters of King Lycomedes of Skyros by his sea-goddess mother to escape his future fate at Troy, has just been tricked-by wily Ulysses-into revealing his identity. The painting shows the king's daughters reveling in necklaces, jeweled belts and earrings that have been brought for their approval, while Achilles chooses the weapons...
Since his election to the Illinois state legislature in 1954, Paul Simon, publisher of the weekly Tribune of Troy (pop. 1,260), has "heard newspapers cursed in the cloakroom and fought on the floor." He began to wonder if the "small but vocal group attacking newspapers" reflected widespread dissatisfaction with the press among state representatives and senators. Publisher Simon mailed out questionnaires to legislators of the 48 states. The nonpartisan survey, whose results were published this week in the March issue of Quill magazine, gave politicians a rare opportunity to talk back to the press...
Vermont--North Troy, Jay Peak, fair to good; Stowe, Mount Mansfield, four trails and slopes open and fair to good, Spruce Peak area closed; Wilmington, Mount Snow, no skiing upper, poor to fair lower, fair to good on lower Overbrook...
...George V saw a TIME footnote about President Eisenhower's cooking and bubbled up in rage like a fondue that has been too close to the fire too long. "It's not true," Chef Lerch cried and fired off a protest to TIME'S editors. In Troy, N.Y. Eighth-Grader Lisa Fitzgerald read our review of Humorist H. Allen Smith's Write Me a Poem, Baby. Lisa, who writes poetry and reviews for the Willard Day School literary magazine Pipes of Pan, was delighted, and she sat right down and wrote to the editors to tell...
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