Word: guidebooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day the smiles faded. A Vatican spokesman said that Authenticator Porcella had indeed worked for the Vatican-for a short period more than 24 years ago on a guidebook. The Italian government, which keeps tab on its art experts, said that Citizen Porcella was not listed as a first-rate expert, or even as a second-rate one. A Chicago art dealer named Jack Shore, president of the Sheridan Galleries, proudly revealed that Porcella had authenticated half a dozen similar masterpieces for him in the past year (among them a "Leonardo"). All were restored by Zlatoff-Mirsky, whom Shore...
Using the Bible as a guidebook, Glueck traced the wanderings of the Children of Israel in their exodus from Egypt, searched for relics of the Edomites, Naba-taeans and other long-vanished peoples. The jaunts were no picnics; the temperature touched 113°, and Arab guerrillas infested the wild country. "It's a little less dangerous than it used to be," says Rabbi Glueck. "In former years we traveled with machine guns and grenades. Now we have only rifles...
...easy, after a few years at Harvard), will find both books full of old friends sensitively observed and old enemies devastatingly put down. For any outsiders doing research on the attributes and attitudes of this group, Mr. Feiffer's two-volume oeuvre will be a necessity, almost a guidebook...
...government. Within two years, after due service in Edinburgh, Milton was in Washington as assistant to Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, whom President Coolidge named to his Cabinet in 1925. And shortly after that, along came big brother Ike, then an obscure Army major called to Washington to write a guidebook for the American Battle Monuments Commission...
Hidden Step. For all her declination toward the horizontal, Sally Jay is not all bed. In her ruefully recounted odyssey among the oddballs, she is often comically appealing. Desperately worried lest she be mistaken for the sort of girl tourist who debarks with a guidebook and a six-month supply of toilet paper, Sally Jay manages a world-weary yawn even when she feels like yipping for joy. She thanks an Italian seducer who wants to marry her to get a nonexistent dowry. Why? "For restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it." Only when she falls...