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Duccio di Buoninsegna (circa 1255-1319) was the last and possibly the greatest of Byzantine painters. Their style of flat, formalized, brilliantly colored art was already dying in Duccio's time. Working in Siena as a decorator of book covers and gift boxes, he kept the tradition alive through...
Tennis, a game in which size and muscle would appear to be indispensable, always includes one or more practicing peewees. Like Bill Johnston and Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, Mrs. Arnold, 120 Ib. and just 5 ft., often looks absurd when she comes out on the court, smiling shyly up at her...
Java Head (Basil Dean) is a conscientious transcription of Joseph Hergesheimer's novel about a New England sea captain and the Manchu Princess he married and brought back from China to early 19th Century Salem. That it is much less exciting on the screen than it was between book...
Proud is Editor Ansley that his Encyclopedia is up-to-date enough to include Babe Ruth's departure from the Boston Braves last June. Even prouder is he that it covers such neglected U. S. subjects as the Conestoga wagon, lassoing, Turkey in the Straw, Pemaquid, Me.
Black little Robert Barnes and big brown Woodrow Wilson Shropshire say they were sent to solitary confinement in a North Carolina chain-gang "dark house" last January because they warmed their feet at a roadside fire after a guard told them not to. The guard's story is that...