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Last week the weary sculptor shuttled to Washington on one of his last missions for the Living Hall. With the aid of sleeping pills, he was regaining his composure. In his car were 18 two-foot bronze statues, ready for delivery to the Smithsonian. The heat of Washington during the summer months had all but melted him down. "But," said he, "I would have gone into my studio and worked in the nude if necessary, in the joy of doing the thing for posterity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Big Fifty | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

...other walls portraits of distinguished cattle share honors with the cattlemen. Among them: the Duke of Northumberland, "the best Shorthorn bull in all England in 1839"; a charming oil of a Guernsey cow with dainty pink nostrils and eyelids. There is a two-foot bronze sculpture of a Belgian horse by Rosa Bonheur's gifted brother, Isadore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Saddle & Sirloin | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

First Class. "The pillboxes were 70 yards apart and built into rock and were amazingly well camouflaged. They were of two sizes. The four-by-fours contained machine-gun nests, the ten-by-tens hid each a mortar. The roofs were of railroad ties and rails buried under a two-foot layer of broken stone. The approaches were sown with the German anti-personnel mines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Those Damn Pillboxes | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...crew looked over the side. Just below the gunner was a hole 9 ft. by 3. At the moment of the first attack a torpedo had passed clean through the Who, Me?'s bow. Below decks one of the crew found a torpedo's two-foot fin and rudder of fine stainless steel -it had sheered off the toilet seat from the crew's "head" and lodged in the crew's quarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: How the Carriers Were Sunk | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

Sorrel Top. She is first seen in a Virginia mansion surrounded by pretty sisters and priceless antiques. The War between the States has just ended. A Yankee brute assaults America's sister, Palestine. America is forced to kill him with a two-foot corn knife. America flees other lady-chasing Yankees along a row of fruit trees. Later she flees lady-killing Fant Annable down a row of tobacco plants. Still later (because of the murdered rapist and to be near Fant) she flees to relatives in Mason County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books, Aug. 3, 1942 | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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