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...great intrinsic value the Guelph treasure fills a great gap in the history of art as shown in U. S. museums. Wise purchases and liberal gifts have made the U. S. comparatively rich in Egyptian, Classical, Gothic, Renaissance and Modern. Of that whole period from the 4th to the 13th Century referred to by Victorian professors as the dark ages, U. S. collections have scarcely anything but a few fragments of Romanesque sculpture, an occasional porphyry column or bit of mosaic. This period is completely covered by the Welfenschatz. Earliest of the pieces is an 8th Century enamel plaque bearing...
...words (three chapters) from Don Quixote on a post card, claimed a world's record." Dr. John J. Taylor, Streator, 111. (this cover- to-cover reader's Grandaddy) in 1893, before 30 prominent Streatorites, wrote on a postcard 14,564 words. The subject: i Kings, 13th Chapter containing 1,142 words. This written twelve times with 860 additional words on one side of a regulation U. S. postcard with the naked eye. With either Dr. John J. or Senor Erasto to pen it-what big-shooting, Hoovering, tycooning, picturing and miscellany could TIME do under a postage stamp...
...Palestine the 13th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration passed quietly, uneventfully last week, both Jews and Arabs cowed by British troops, afraid to demonstrate...
...trees, no grass in Red Square, Moscow's vast bleak oblong. But at least once a year the grey granite pavement (new-laid by a firm of U. S. contractors) sprouts with the thin steel blades of thousands of bayonets. It did so last week for the 13th anniversary of the Soviet state. Hour after hour the troops filed by, impressive in their grey-brown, ankle-length overcoats while airplanes flew back and forth in formation...
Cleveland will begin, its 13th season Oct. 16 under Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff. In January it is anticipated that the Orchestra will move into its own hall, given by John L. and the late Mrs. Severance...