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...Safeguard of French Art is the creation of a rotund, twinkling Frenchman, the Due de Trévise, whose great grandfather, one of Napoleon's marshals, was killed by an infernal machine in 1835 while riding beside King Louis Philippe. In gratitude to the family, the King gave their name to a street, the Rue de Trévise near the Folies-Bergère. When the Folies first opened it was gaily called the Folies-Trévise, a name which the furious family succeeded in getting changed. The present Duke likes to talk about this regretfully...
...Duke founded the "Sauvegarde" as a socialite, money-making organization to eke out Government care of French art treasures, of which he is a noted connoisseur. The particular passion of the Due de Trévise is for painting of that period when Napoleon's eagles had deflected the operatic ardor of the French revolution into the ardor of Empire...
...from the station's till were gone when his mother found Harlen Pitts still kneeling, one of his hands clamped in a vise, the other held firmly to the bench by a large nail driven through the palm...
ELEANOR C.A. Southern Corning, N. Y. Sirs: . . . .For my information, will you kindly vise the other five? THOMAS C. WINTER Grand Rapids, Mich. Let TIME readers choose their own other five from the following list: Atlanta Constitution, Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Dallas News, Detroit News, Kansas City Star...
...Witness Koehler fastened a vise to one end of Justice Trenchard's bench, clamped a piece of wood in it and skimmed off a shaving with the plane found in Hauptmann's garage. With a piece of paper and a pencil he made a rubbing of the planed surface as a child reproduces the design of a coin. He then made a similar rubbing of a planed surface on the ladder, showed the jury that the striations on both rubbings were identical...