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...heritage in any way but reproduction," he says. "Egypt was a book to them; so was Europe." The museum began collecting samples from the great periods in history: Egyptian art back to 3,000 B.C., a richly-tooled gold funeral wreath from ancient Greece, a Chinese urn from the Han dynasty, a fine green glaze beaker from the 15th century Persia. In painting, Chillman stuck to such safe and sure old masters as Fra Angelico Bellini, Rembrandt, such French impressionists as Cézanne and Renoir, and a gallery of popular Americans from John Singer Sargent to Cowboy Artists Frederic...
...fake, says Budu. When the real body began to deteriorate rapidly at the beginning of World War II, Stalin was afraid the people would "take it as a bad sign." A perfect likeness was made and Lenin's body was cremated, the ashes placed in an urn and submerged in the Volga near his birthplace...
...malaise that accompanies the combination of a heavy meal, a discourse, and a tuxedo, he expressly banished any after-dinner orations. And Elliott Perkins, the present Master, follows the old Arabic custom of taking salt with one's friends; he passes around the table a large silver urn, the gift of Coolidge. The salt is no personal eccentricity of Perkins'; it takes the place of wine at High Table. With local liquor reguations what they are, the Houses are forbidden to serve alcoholic beverages, and thus instead of offering up a toast in wine, the High Table guest dips into...
...constitution of the Polish People's [Communist] Republic. There was no fuss, no muss, and no opposition. Voters were handed pink cards containing the names of but one ticket, led by Communist President Boleslaw Bierut. Then they were told to fold and drop the card into an urn. An area was screened off where voters, if they wished, could go to cross off any names on the card. Few did, in the face of a warning: "Those who deliberately impair the unity of the nation are enemies...
Triangle. In Portland, Me., Mrs. Marie Van Zelm, suing for divorce, complained that her husband: 1) hung his late first wife's clothes in their bedroom closet, 2) kept an urn of her ashes in the living room, 3) framed her pressed funeral flowers on the wall, 4) always bought two Christmas trees and explained, "One is for us [meaning the first wife], the other...