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First clue to the forgotten fresco's existence came to light when workmen moved the sarcophagus with the bones of the church's founder, discovered behind it bits of an old fresco on the wall. Restorer Brambilla, on hand to work on a later work by Fiammenghino, quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Discovery in Milan | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

Only last week Dorothy Killgallen reported (in her syndicated eHarst column), "The Bridey Murphy craze is captivating the town's chorus girls. The belles are meeting by the dozens at one another's apartments after showtime, chipping in to hire a professional hypnotist and sitting around fascinated as they listen...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Hypnosis: Space Machine to a Former Life | 3/16/1956 | See Source »

Now the Wurtzburgers are off again, this time to Russia, to uncover choice works of Pacific Northwest Indian art collected by Russian seal hunters in Czarist days. "These days the last person who asks the Russians for something seems to get it," says Wurtzburger. "Maybe we'll be lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: OCEANIC ART: MASKS OF BEAUTY | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

The last, and perhaps the richest opportunity offered by the retelling of history is that of exploring and trying to uncover the characters of persons whose names have been only that. Here too, Prokosch has fallen far short of what might have been done. We see his figures and hear...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Narrative Without Meaning, And the History of a Crime | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

As the good guy, Actor Grant never had it so good. He is an American, a reformed jewel thief, known in his day as "The Cat." Now retired, he lives cool and easy on the rocks, puttering about a villa. Then comes trouble. The police suspect that he is responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 15, 1955 | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

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