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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thanks ... are due to TIME for reporting the uncovering of a hitherto unknown portrait of that interesting monarch, Henry VIII [TIME, June 30]. . . . TIME slipped, however, in stating that the English collector [Stannard] had "rescued from oblivion Henry's earliest known portrait." There is a quite authentic and well-known "Portrait of Henry VIII as a Child" [see cut) which antedates the portrait in question by some 15 years. The childhood portrait, made about 1494 by an unknown artist, has in recent years belonged to the collection of the Verney family at Rhianva, Anglesey, England. It shows that even...
...Unknown Agents." The FBI questioned the two closely, decided that they had had no foreign or subversive connections. The material was returned to AEC, the affair was reported to the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee on June 17. The boys were kept under surveillance while the Justice Department and AEC debated whether there was any way to hold a trial without revealing atomic secrets. Publicly, no one said a word...
...last week the New York Sun stumbled across something. In three-bank headlines, it announced that "unknown agents" had stolen atom-bomb secrets from the Oak Ridge plant. The quick-to-panic became panicky. Cried New Jersey's J. Parnell Thomas: "We must take drastic steps." In the Senate, Iowa's Bourke B. Hickenlooper rose to say that, as chairman of AEC, he had "no reason to believe" that anything had been stolen from Oak Ridge. But, said he, there was something he should mention. He revealed the Los Alamos theft...
...Secretary of State has always stood as much alone as the historian. Required to look far ahead and round him, he measures forces unknown to party managers, and has found Congress more or less hostile ever since Congress first sat. The Secretary of State exists only to recognize the existence of a world which Congress would rather ignore; of obligations which Congress repudiates whenever it can; of bargains which Congress distrusts and tries to turn to its advantage or reject...
...hatbox. For 25 years it gathered dust as Sir Arthur and his Sherlock Holmes gathered legend. Finally Sir Arthur's son, Adrian, went poking about and last week the secret was out. The hatbox, announced Adrian, contained unpublished writings by Sir Arthur, including The Crown Diamond, a "hitherto unknown" one-act play about Holmes, and a mysterious manuscript entitled Some Personalia About Mr. Sherlock Holmes. This "unique document," said Adrian cryptically, would "explode the old myths" about Sir Arthur and his great gumshoe...