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Optical Illusion. In Milwaukee, Thomas Buchanan, 26, protesting in vain when police rushed him to the hospital after a tavern brawl, finally got his point across: the eye he had lost in the fight was made of glass...
...Another epic story [that] someday must be told," says Marshall, is the vain and valiant struggle put up by units of the X Corps and the First Marine Division manning the eastern sector of the U.S. front...
...vain for a fault in one page of my book...
Since 1923, five Presidents have tried in vain to get Congress' final approval of a new Cabinet post for the Government's welfare functions. Last week President Eisenhower made his try, asked Congress to let him convert the vast Federal Security Agency (37,000 employees) into the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. His plan would make Federal Security Administrator Oveta Gulp Hobby his tenth Cabinet member...
...most dramatic of the old masters, and one of the most unpredictable. An artisan's son who lived during the bloody days of the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, he grew up to be a darling of the court, though he often painted his benefactors to look like vain simpletons. When Napoleon conquered Spain Goya first curried favor with the victors, then commemorated their outrages with a series of compassionate etchings. Last week an exhibition of 81 of the master's works was on display in Richmond's lively Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, supplemented by a push...