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Died. Hendrik Willem van Loon, 62, merchant prince of literary popularizers ; of a heart attack ; in Old Greenwich, Conn. The pleasure-loving, 290-lb., 6 ft. 3 in. Cornellman ('05) was successively a Washington reporter, Belgian and Russian correspondent, European graduate student, U.S. college professor (Antioch, 1922-23), associate editor of the Baltimore Sun (1923-24). He discovered his talent for the affable packaging of intellectual pabulum with his Story of Mankind (1921). With a roughage of Dutch wit, a vitamin-content of "human-interest background," and doodled-over with his own pen-&-ink sketches, his The Story...
...canvases might be, nobody who looked at them knew. After France fell, 67-year-old Vlaminck (rhymes with plank) was reported to be well treated by the Nazis (TIME, June 9, 1941). Since then nothing more has been heard of him. Maurice de Vlaminck's father was a Belgian who taught music in Paris. Tall and athletic, young Maurice first supported himself as a professional bicycle racer, later as a Paris nightclub musician. But his real passion was painting...
Died. Dr. Leo Hendrik" Baekeland, 80, father of plastics; in Beacon, N.Y. In 1909 courtly, dignified, Belgian-born Baekeland invented Bakelite (oxybenzyl-methylenglycolanhydride) - the first successful, noninflammable, synthetic solid. He got his start in 1880 when, as the youngest student at the University of Ghent, he developed Velox paper, a photographic milestone which killed tintypes and netted him a reputed $1,000,000 from Eastman Kodak. Baekeland made possible the "improbable sandwich" (plywood) by his work in 1912 on a synthetic resin filler. He was also honored for : separation of cadmium and copper, oxidation of hydrochloric acid under light, dissociation...
...rapprochement with Algiers: a traditional, power-political desire to prepare a counterbloc in western Europe, just in case Russia establishes a rival block in the east (see p. 11). London dispatches reported that Britain and the U.S. will soon sign agreements providing for administration of liberated Norwegian, Netherlands and Belgian territories by their Governments in Exile...
...adding to present stocks. Before the war, practically all U.S. tin requirements were supplied by the Malayan and East Indies mines. At present the U.S. receives tin from the high-cost Bolivian mines at the annual rate of 18,000 tons; and from a comparatively new source, the Belgian Congo, at the annual rate of 12,000 tons. A little more than 20,000 tons comes from reclaiming operations. Imports from China, French West Africa, and Mexico, coming in driblets, might be increased in the future...