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Eric Franck of Antwerp, Belgium; James M. Graves of Southport, Conn.; John R. McLane 3d of Manchester, N. H.; Joseph B. Poindexter (Capt.) of Stepney, Conn.; Langdon M. Smith of Winchester, Mass.; James L. Gale (Mgr.) of Concord, Mass...
JACQ M. COPPENS Antwerp, Belgium...
...York. In another two years of hard work, he saved enough to send for his family. Ruchal (Rose) Rickover and her two children, Fanny, 8, and Hyman, 6, made their way across Germany, sleeping in bleak dormitories provided by German Jews. When they saw their first ships at Antwerp, the future admiral, Hyman, burst into tears. "The boats were so big," his sister recalls, "they frightened...
...Dove [opposite]. The painting is probably the first Holy Family Rubens ever attempted, and unlike many of his later works, which were painted partly by apprentices, it seems to be all from his own hand. Rubens made the picture in 1609, he was 32 and had just returned to Antwerp after a nine-year stay in Italy. The almost theatrical lighting recalls Caravaggio (one of Rubens' chief enthusiasms), and the whole canvas has a studied Italianate air. It cannot match the healthy, wealthy and wise painter's mature masterpieces, but the picture does demonstrate his growing genius. Beyond...
...Chicago disk jockey and onetime Olympic swimming champion (1920); of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill. "Big Moose" Ross claimed that he learned to swim by reading an instruction manual, but he broke 72 world records, won both the 400 and the 1,500-meter Olympic races at Antwerp in 1920. Hired by a Chicago radio station in 1931, Ross attracted over a million Midwestern listen ers with his early morning "400 Hour" of classical music and light chatter...