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...bricked up, so that the only access to the conclave would be one doorway. Over that entrance the head of Rome's noble Chigi family would stand guard-Prince Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, hereditary Marshal of the Holy Roman Church. The Marshal would carry in a red velvet satchel two keys to the door, open it only after consultation with Cardinal Camerlengo Pacelli within...
Garbed by the Penitentiaries in white soutane, red cape and hood, the body of Pius XI was raised upon a velvet and gold catafalque, carried in a slow cortege to the Sistine Chapel. There, dwarfed by the surging figures of Michelangelo's vast Last Judgment, the Pope lay in state while dignitaries of the Church, diplomats. Crown Prince Umberto (for the Italian royal family) and Count Galeazzo Ciano (for Mussolini) paid homage. Next day the Pope's body was carried into St. Peter's, where the weeping populace, which had been thronging St. Peter's Square...
...from the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington told exactly how efficient a sound absorber snow is. They carried a carpet of newly fallen snow, four inches deep, into their laboratory, found it absorbed 90% and more of vibrations in the middle and high frequency ranges, far more than heavy velvet draperies...
...cynosure all through 1938. In her unglamorous moments, she wears shell-rimmed spectacles and calls her mother, now Mrs. Frederic N. Watriss, "Mummie." In more typical moments, she led a night club's hay ride through Manhattan's streets, served as debutante chairman of charity's Velvet Ball, posed for Woodbury's Soap ads. Last month, publicly expressing displeasure with her daughter's constant publicity, Mrs. Watriss packed her off to Nassau and her maternal grandparents...
...quiet, old and svelte, has a quasi-institutional aura which many dealers envy. At least once a year Knoedler's puts on a "prestige show," a big loan exhibition of masterwork in which no single item is ostensibly for sale. Last week, Knoedler displayed against the black velvet of its inner rooms 58 borrowed pictures by three French artists of the early 19th Century: Gros, Géricault, Delacroix. The gate receipts were to go to a society called "La Sauvegarde de l'Art Fran...