Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Kraus further illustrated the high price of ancient manuscripts by plunking down $64,000 on the same day for an old (1480) French-English text, a first edition issued by William Caxton, England's first printer. The British Museum is already nibbling for the Caxton book, but Kraus intends to bring the map "home" to the U.S., hopes to sell it to the Library of Congress, "so Americans can see where their land was named...
Warsaw is drab and still rubble-strewn, but memorable. The ancient capital of Cracow retains its medieval splendor. So does Prague, with its beautiful setting; on the Moldau, hotels are good (single: $11.75 per day with meals). Bureaucracy controls: the hotel costs must be paid before the tourist can use his visa. A four-day tour of Bohemian spas and castles costs $38.20 with meals...
...Highlights of its month-long program: Mikhail Glinka's Russian and Ludmilla, a less well-known but far better work than Glinka's only other opera, A Life for the Tsar, Gustav Mahler's massive oratorio, Das Lied von der Erde. to be played in the ancient Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral; the first performance outside Russia of Dmitry Shostakovich's new Concerto lor Violoncello...
...Harold Osman (H.O.) Kelly had won a strange sort of fame for a man who was called by the nickname, "Cowboy." People came from far and wide to visit him at his rickety little house outside Blanket, Texas. They would listen to him reminisce, sit while his ancient phonograph scratched a favorite polka. But mostly they came to buy one of his bright and lively paintings of an oddly remote Old West (see color). Sometimes the old man gave them away as gifts-and fine presents they were, too. No less a person than the late Francis Henry Taylor, onetime...
...excavated, that the happy fusion of East and West was generally recognized. Until then, Gandhara's modern British rulers were apt to look upon these remnants of a distant time as meaningless curiosities. Once, when soldiers of the Queen's Own Corps of Guides came upon some ancient reliefs, they decided to use them to decorate the fireplace of their mess hall at Mardan. As might have been expected, smoke begrimed the stones, so the ingenious Guides covered them with a coat of black shoe polish. Shoe blacking darkens some of them still...