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...centuries, the appearance and location of St. Peter's tomb has been a rich source of controversy and legend. The Liber Pontificalis, a chronicle of papal history from the ist to the 15th Century, maintained that after St. Peter was crucified head downward in Nero's Circus, somewhere between 64 and 67 A.D., his body was buried in a pagan cemetery near by. Pious legend tells how Constantine, who built the first basilica over St. Peter's tomb (begun 323 A.D.), had Peter's remains embedded in 40 tons of molten bronze overlaid with 30 pounds...
...Edward Hopper. It struck a low blue note characteristic of the exhibition as a whole. Buffalo's Hubert Raczka had painted a lonely little figure through the bars of a fire escape, called it Insignificance. The Portland Museum School's Robert Galaher had wrapped his hulking Circus Worker in a sad, smokelike haze, and Milwaukee's John Pagac had contributed a fatly photographic Self-Portrait that might have been inspired by reflections in a beer bottle on a morning-after...
Eyes & Purses. Malvern was the first of 15 Arkansas cities and towns to get a look at the caravan. The state-sponsored trek, proceeding with all the hoopla of an oldtime circus, was meant as both an eye opener and a purse opener. For years, Arkansas has missed being at the bottom of the U.S. list in educational expenditures only because Alabama and Mississippi have usually spent less...
...Tokyo suburb one day last week, near the spot where a sabotaged railroad train had just killed six people, a ramshackle automobile flying a tattered red Rising Sun flag drew up with a screech of brakes. Like the celebrated clown act in the Ringling Bros, circus, nearly a dozen reporters and photographers poured out of the jampacked car. After hastily pitching a brown tent by the roadside as a temporary city room, the journalistic task force spread out to hunt for clues. Asahi (Rising Sun), the Far East's biggest and best newspaper, was out to crack the crime...
Died. Walt Kuhn, 68, "the Rembrandt of Show Business," painter of vaudeville and circus subjects (The Blue Clown); after long illness; in White Plains, N. Y. A champion of modern art ("Good painters are never intellectuals; they're simply people with one-track minds"), Kuhn helped run the famed 1913 Armory Show, which introduced the U.S. to Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Matisse...