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...picture at home and to him it looked strangely like some of the Leonardos he had seen. He fetched it to Milan, showed it to such experts as Adolfo Venturi. It did not take the experts long to know it for the work of "a great Tuscan master of the Renaissance." nor much longer to announce last week that it will be hung in the da Vinci exhibition as, in all probability, the master's long-lost and long-sought Madonna with...
...Manhattan-Chicago run in what looked like another dead heat. Each was scheduled to make the run in 16 hours, a half-hour faster than before. This meant that Central's blue-streaked, silver Century must cover its 960 miles in 960 minutes, the gold-banded. Tuscan-red Broadway its 908 miles in the same time...
...adjoining room are a selection of Greek vases, mainly from the Hoppin Collection. Outstanding is the great amphora that was a Panathenaic prize. Across the room are decorative arts from Mediterranean lands. Terra cotta figurines from Tanagra, phials of Roman glass, and Tuscan gold earrings are preeminent in this group...
...dozen or so first-class women fencers in the U. S. are not famed, but they are exceedingly well known to each other. For the past several months they have been following with surprise and concern the career of the latest addition to their minute number-Mrs. Bela de Tuscan of Detroit. Married to Detroit's best fencing master, trained as a dancer until her husband persuaded her to take up foils three years ago, Mrs. de Tuscan made sensational headway in the Olympic tryouts that have been going on all winter. Her colleagues could hardly wait...
Because the national tournament counted as the last event on the Olympic tryout schedule, Mrs. de Tuscan was able to answer both questions at once on the green linoleum strip of Manhattan's Fencers Club last week. So pretty that with a foil in her hand she inevitably creates a brief illusion of being an actress learning how to handle the weapon for purposes of some romantic musical comedy, Mrs. de Tuscan won seven of her eight bouts, fencing with superb aggressiveness. Marion Lloyd, one of the two ex-champions in the round robin, beat...