Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Address Unknown. Little was known about the prisoners in Russia and her satellites, Yugoslavia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Moscow last week announced that German prisoners in Russia were being repatriated at the rate of 9,000 a week, but did not give the exact number still held. Said one German prisoner's wife last week: "My letters to Russian officials in Berlin and Moscow remain unanswered. I think they do not know themselves whom they have, and do not wish to admit...
Alfred de Marigny, acquitted by a Nassau court in 1943 of the charge of killing his wealthy father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes, ran an ad in the Montreal Star, offering for sale: "Entire worldly possessions . . . pending departure for parts unknown...
Right next door to Manhattan's well-heeled Whitney Museum (see above) is the Clay Club, a converted stable which is one of the nation's few sculpture galleries. The Club's annual group exhibition last week included two especially talented-and all but unknown-modern sculptors...
...other disease puzzled the Los Angeles Health Department, which blamed it on virus X (so called because its nature is unknown). Its victims commonly suffer gastrointestinal upsets, occasionally inflammation of the nose and throat, and flu-like general aches & pains. Last week, the Los Angeles area had 200,000 victims of virus X. Doctors said there was no connection between virus X and either Q fever or ordinary flu, advised patients: "Call a doctor...
Piety and Patrons. Such a harmony of heart and hand belonged to an all but unknown painter named Alesso Baldovinetti, whose Madonna and Child appears on TIME'S cover this week. In any other age, Baldovinetti's talent might have made him the master of his day; while he lived he was known chiefly for his piety and craftsmanship. It was a time when painters and patrons, by common consent, chose God and His saints as the ultimate subject of art, and every studio apprentice planned on growing up to paint Him. It was an age in which...