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...arts: his son, Achillite, while inheriting his father's taste, proved to be lamentably without his shrewdness. To liquidate his debts his executors offered the renowned Chiesa collection for sale. Last week part of it- 63 paintings by Flemish, Dutch, Italian masters, and a show of old armor, basinets and brigandines, a Castilian chapel-de-fer, a Venetian salade, some great two-handed swords from England-was put on exhibition in the American Art Galleries...
...Walkerton, Ind., a farmer opened a mound, disclosed eight skeletons, one of them clad in copper armor, lying feet together like spokes in a wheel. A giant for stature had a flint arrow head embedded in his skull. The bones appeared to be of Mound Builders...
...ships. Returning to Yucatan, he gauged the point on the sacred well's brink whence the victims were probably thrown. He hurled in logs of human weight to approximate the drowning spot. He brought in a dredge, and after removing tons of mud put on his rubber armor and steel helmet, dropped down and recovered 90 skeletons and a priceless collection of jade and golden images, now on view at the Peabody museum. The Carnegie Foundation will carry on his work...
...shepherd David, a pale boy staring at a man in armor; David the warrior, huge-thewed and falcon-hearted, marching before the armies of Israel into battle; King David sitting in judgment over his people, stroking the black wires of his beard with fingers that have forgotten the harp; David, old and a prophet, remembering past enchantments and past ills-this cycle in the sounds of a limited wind-choir, a piano, harmonium, celesta, double-bass and percussion, was heard last week in Manhattan -Arthur Honegger's "Symphonic Psalm," performed by the Society of the Friends of Music...
path of the others. The new gun has a vertical range of 15,000 feet, and a horizontal range of 27,000 ft. Its flaming "tracer shots" will serve the added purpose of setting fire to enemy aircraft. Its projectiles will pierce armor plate one inch thick at 12,000 feet. Each weighs about a quarter of a pound...