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...Bio D. is adequately given by Darrah and after midyears Hisaw, Harvard's edition of Will Rogers. This is a remarkably complete course, and men who thought they had enough prerequisites to skip it have regretted its omission...
Lover of Life is not to be confused with Irving Stone's Lust For Life (TIME, Oct. 28, 1935), nor is it likely to be. Both are bio-novels about painters. But about living, Life-Lover Pieter Paul Rubens was measurably less hot under the ruff than Life-Luster Vincent van Gogh, and so is the tone of his story. Comfortably pneumatic as a Rubens model (678 pages), it provides an intricate semiprivate history of its period (1577-1640), a smooth survey course in Renaissance art, and a career which refreshingly breaks most of the rules set down about...
...Bio-novelist Harsanyi lays out this wholesome career in great detail-more, perhaps, than some laymen will care for. He loves Rubens' early years in Italy, under the patronage of the Duke of Mantua; the shrewd, rewarding sequel in Antwerp, where his studio became a factory; the courts at Paris, Madrid, London, The Hague, where, while he colored canvas by the bolt, he also did diplomatic errands in the service of his native Flanders...
Concentrating in Bio-chemistry Drucker may enter the Medical School this summer. If he does, his case will be similar to Richard G. Harris who was elected this year's captain and then resigned the first of the year to enter the Business School...
...economically healthy nation will always reveal its equilibrium in its straight-line community pattern, like a healthy body with its temperature of 98.6°. If the graphed line sags, wrinkles severely or bulges, the nation is maladjusted. But natural bio-social forces tend always to restore straight-line health...