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Article: Eighty years on.
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- Apollo
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- January 1, 2005
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This year APOLLO celebrates its eightieth birthday. The magazine's first issue, published in January 1925, priced at half-a-crown, gives very few explicit clues about its purposes. It is handsomely produced, in a large, rather square format with heavy, grey-green card covers; inside, there are tipped-in, well-printed coloured plates. But there is no announcement by its founding editor, R. Sydney Glover, of what the magazine intends to do; it begins, without any preamble, with a grippingly written article on the concelament of Van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece during World War I (an extract appears in 'From the Archives' on page 96). Although the magazine's focus is clearly the ...
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