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...varnish, in the murk of Ince Hall, near Liverpool. When the Australian gallery bought and cleaned it, English art-lovers cried aloud to see it lost to the Antipodes. So infinite in detail and so opulent are the Madonna's cascaded red robe, blue tunic and gold embroidered background that the painting seems less a miniature than a heroic picture seen through a small window...
...Background. Only in view of the theory and practice of psychoanalysis is Moses and Monotheism intelligible. And the history of psychoanalysis is the history of Sigmund Freud...
...fact the Paris Times, for four years was a kind of daily TIME, giving to each item of news that background and elucidation necessary for comprehension-or entertainment. Now, ten years later, American newspapers are discovering the value of the formula and hailing it as a discovery. The Paris Times was a pioneer in the daily field, as TIME was a pioneer in the weekly field...
...keep up-to-date, Correspondent John Gunther wrote a swift, popular handbook of present-day Europe. His system was to take a country, give the lives, habits and personalities of its leaders, put in a few choice anecdotes, make a few sound generalizations about the people, sketch in historical background, retell the nation's most recent and dramatic episodes and then move on to the next country, where the same process was repeated...
...Burnice Smith, 25, granddaughter of the super-social George Washington Kavanaughs; and Bandmaster Eddie LeBaron (real name: Eduardo Alba-lini de Gastine), 32; after eloping to Yonkers, N. Y. Snobbed Grandfather Kavanaugh: "We don't like it a bit. It doesn't fit in with our social background...