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...Rembrandt's Night Watch had a hole torn in it. Last year in the same museum a little Dutchman axed Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson (TIME, March 2, 1931). On March 10, 1914 May Richardson, famed suffraget, pulled a hatchet from her muff and slashed Velazquez's Venus and Cupid in London's National Gallery as a protest against the jailing of Emmeline Pankhurst. Until 1845 the beautiful Portland Vase in the British Museum was crackless. Then one William Lloyd suddenly dashed it from its pedestal, shattered it into pieces which were painstakingly fastened together again...
Cause for speculation and calculation arose from the celestially minute sizes of the Delporte and Reinmuth Objects (about three miles diameter) and from their unexpected locations. The Delporte Object was only ten million miles from Earth. The Sun is 92,897,400 mi. away. Venus (nearest planet) is 25 million miles at its nearest. The big, 20-mi.-in-diameter planetoid Eros approaches to 13,800,000 mi. Nothing planetary it seemed could come closer to Earth...
American Velvet Venus...
American. Pride of American Lead Pencil Co. is its Venus, world's only green crackle-finished pencil. The company was incorporated in 1886 but has been in business for a good 70 years. Its president is Sam Joseph Reckford. whose father Joseph Reckendorfer was an original partner in Eagle Pencil Co. His tall nephew John King Reckford. inventor of the present method of painting the Venus, is vice president. Secretary and treasurer is his son Joseph Reckford. Nothing would so delight Joseph Reckford as to hear people say, ''Look, look, there goes the Pencil King...
...been placed in the Lowell House Library, where it will remain in the possession of the House, and will be used from time to time for exhibits of books and other relics. The first exhibit is now being held, and consists of a recent edition of Shakspere's 'Venus and Adonis', with illustrations by Rockwell Kent...