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...link on the Wehrmacht supply line to Russia. It was no part of the R.A.F. plan that the fire bombs rained down on Lübeck's beautiful 13th Century Marienkirche, but fire melted the church's great bell, gutted the interior. Repair crews got a surprise: whitewash had peeled from the walls, revealing patches of vividly colored frescoes beneath...
Reinforcement of towers and masonry came first, but by last year trained workers began chipping away the rest of the Marienkirche's whitewash. Slowly they uncovered panel after panel of 13th and 14th Century work. With crude but forceful strokes, the old Gothic craftsmen had covered the walls with stately saints and serene virgins, friezes of animals and flowers, medieval street scenes, vignettes from the Bible and Aesop's fables. The colors, brilliant reds, blues, greens and yellows, were still unfaded...
...major artistic find, the frescoes are among the few Gothic wall paintings still in existence. For their fine state of preservation, Liibeck can thank sedate 15th Century churchmen who considered such lively church decorations old-fashioned and undignified, ordered them whitewashed in 1476. A generation or two later came the Reformation, the Marienkirche became a Protestant church, and the Lutherans kept up the whitewash treatment. In a short while, the underlying frescoes were forgotten by all but scholars...
...included large quantities of fresh fruit and vegetables, eggs and ice cream-were elegantly laid out on tables fashioned from packing cases. They played baseball and basketball, swam in the rivers, flocked at night to movies, risked their payday money in poker and crap games. Stones glistening with new whitewash lined driveways at command posts which no longer had to be moved every few days...
Republicans in Diapers. "I've been subjected to the damndest bunch of intellectual balderdash that I've seen come out of politics in a hell of a long time. I've been represented as being responsible for the 'Pearl Harbor whitewash' [he was counsel for the Pearl Harbor Committee], although I battled the committee for a whole month. I've been accused of being responsible for everything the Loyalty Review Board did, although I sat in just two cases . . . I've been charged by Republicans . . . with being only a nominal Republican, and these...