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Descending in direct line from the monkish French Gothic manuscript illu - minators of the late Middle Ages, the Flemish school got its start in the early 14003 when Jan van Eyck, painter and "varlet de chambre" to the Duke of Burgundy, brought a brand-new vividness and brilliancy to the technique of painting...
...were the two pocket battleships and the big cruisers Admiral Hipper, Seydlitz and Derfflinger. So were Germany's two new carriers Graf Zeppelin and Deutschland. Finally, there was a brand-new 40,000-ton battleship, probably Friedrich der Grosse, and a few cruisers newly completed in German and occupied yards...
Last week the San Francisco Museum of Art recognized this architectural trend by putting on show models and plans by five of California's ace modern architects. The exhibition proved three things: 1) that California has developed its own brand-new style of domestic architecture; 2) that this style is perhaps the most advanced and progressive in the world today; 3) that California architects have succeeded in evolving a type of house that is modern and homelike at the same time...
Americans who have listened through radio's well-meant, sometimes brilliant but often talky, overdone, and unrealistic attempt to propagandize the war since Dec. 7 had something to stand up and cheer for last week: The Army Hour. A brand-new, 60-minute Sunday afternoon show put on by the U.S. Army, it had the welcome ring of authenticity...
...Palm Sunday Cleveland's Pastor Frank H. Ferris and his well-to-do Fairmount Presbyterian congregation celebrated their first services in a brand-new church. Most magnificent of all the new church's handsome trappings was a set of 37 stained-glass windows picturing the life of Christ. Few U.S. churches could boast their equals, and none precisely like them had ever been seen in a U.S. church before. For the world's makers of stained-glass windows they reopened an artistic question that most purists had settled a generation...