Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the war in Italy rolled north to Monte Cassino, the chief ornament of the monastery's Chapel of the Assumption was a handsome altarpiece of the Virgin. Then the ancient monastery threatened to become a defensive keystone for the Germans, and U.S. bombers leveled it.*The painting, by 17th-Century Paolo de Matteis, disappeared amid the rubble. Officially it was written off as a lost art treasure...
Into the Rough Atlantic. Just a few weeks before, the Amphitrite's trip had begun like a vacation cruise. Sam Luttrell, a retired Army officer in business in the Virgin Islands, had bought the yacht, a 96-ft. converted subchaser, at a Long Island shipyard. He hired an ex-Air Force officer from Miami for his navigator, and took on four Puerto Ricans as hands. With Gustave Frazer, a brawny Virgin Islander who worked for Luttrell, as engineer, the Luttrell family and their crew set out on a leisurely sea trip back to St. Thomas. They headed south...
Badgering Bryan. The high point of Potter's career as a Unitarian was his series of five debates in 1923-24 with Fundamentalist Dr. John Roach Straton of New York City's Calvary Baptist Church. The subjects-the infallibility of the Bible, evolution, the Virgin Birth, the divinity and second coming of Christ- were, says Potter, "part of a crisis in theology." Police and firemen had to be called out to handle the crowds, and the ding-dong battle made Potter, at West Side Unitarian Church, one of Manhattan's best-known preachers...
...Addis was looking a little shaken by his ordeal. "In any other role, you can tell a girl she looks 'too young' or 'too beautiful' for the part," said he. "What can you say to a girl who won't make a suitable Vestal Virgin?" But he had apparently found just what he was looking for. The lucky six: two divorcées, aged 39 and 47, three married women, aged 23, 56 and 60, and one unmarried girl, aged...
Last week Dr. Herbert L. Everett of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station told about a frustrated petunia that remains forever virgin and so goes right on flowering. Dr. Everett crossed two widely different varieties of petunia. One of the offspring was sterile; the flowers had proper female ovules but no fertile male pollen. By crossing and recrossing, Dr. Everett can now make most kinds of petunias sterile. They flaunt their flowers hopefully, inviting bees to visit them. The bees come as usual, but the flowers cannot dust them with fertilizing pollen. So the desperate virgin, to its own frustration...