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...Palestine. There they told how ruck-sacked Nazi youths in peacetime had accepted the monasteries' humble hospitality and returned as soldiers to pillage and defile. Great iron bells that for centuries sounded matins and vespers had been carried away, to be melted down for the Nazi war machine. Priceless icons, illuminated manuscripts handed down from Byzantine emperors, and religious treasures* had been gathered as loot and shipped to Berlin. These things had driven them, sick at heart, from beloved mountain valleys thick with arbutus and carefully laid out for the husbanding of vineyards and olive groves within sight...
...Seas untouched by the white man. Many a sea-captain must have been surprised to find, on returning home, that some basket or spear-head which he had picked up as a mere curio was sought after by the scolarly directors of a pioneer museum as an item both priceless and probably never again to be duplicated...
From the mountains of New England to the shaggy slopes of Georgia's hills, flames ate greedily at priceless timber. Red-eyed, smoke-bleary, smudge-blackened men fought, cursed, touched off backfires. Out over the Atlantic rolled billows of smoke, swept east by the prevailing winds. Airmen on patrol for submarines groped through the haze...
...show was a good first try. It was a show that anyone but Axis sympathizers could enjoy. It had information, guts, a good musical score, and the best dramatic material extant (the fighting fronts themselves) to draw from. If its makers use these priceless, uncensored gifts wisely, they may have the hit show of the year...
Ranging from a model of several Eskimos doing a dance in a steam sweat bath to priceless Chinese pottery dug up in the Philippines, the exhibition is arranged in such a way that the visitor follows a definite series of displays. To make sure that the spectator follows the correct order, Frederick Pleasants, who directed the construction of the room, placed show cases, and the large boards on which-the exhibits are arranged, in various positions around the room, and sent students wandering through the maze...