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...lost, just displaced. A German private who was also something of an artist had spotted the picture in the ruins, rolled it up and carried it away with him. He cached it for a while in Austria, then took it home to Bavaria. Eventually he wrote to the abbot of Monte Cassino, offering to return the picture if he was hired to repair it himself. U.S. Occupation authorities traced the letter, briskly reclaimed the painting and sent it on to the Bavarian State Picture Gallery in Munich for authentification...
Between 1194 and 1260, the community slowly raised the great cathedral that now stands at Chartres. An abbot, who watched the dedicated builders dragging great stone blocks five miles from the quarry, wrote with pride and amazement...
Winthrop's fast hockey team, led by goalie Rog Taylor, blanked Leverett yesterday 4 to 0. Scoring was spread out as George Abbot, Frank Huntington, Dave Cabot, and Fritz Drill each got credit for one goal. The Puritans' record now stands at one win and one tie. The Bunnies beat Lowell in their only other outing...
...ABBOT R. "DICK" COFFIN Winthrop, Mass...
...Little Jack Horner, he was very likely the thieving steward of Glastonbury Abbey during the reign of Henry VIII. "The story goes," say the Opies, "that at the time of the Dissolution, the abbot ... sent his steward to [Henry VIII] with a Christmas gift: a pie in which were hidden the title deeds of twelve manors. On the journey, Jack Horner is said to have opened the pie and extracted the deed of the Manor of Mells . . . His descendants live there to this...