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...warm glow of fire, a reassuring star of hope. In the Christian world, the great theme around which this yearning centers is the story of the Nativity. No subject in Western art has had more enduring appeal for the hearts and minds of men. From the West's earliest known painting of the Madonna and Child (TIME, May 16) through the passionate, attenuated figures of El Greco and Grünewald to such diverse moderns as Gauguin and Matisse, the elemental yet intimate scene of mother and newborn son has filled men with awe and rejoicing. To celebrate this...
...historic document, presented by the West Publishing Company of St. Paul, Minn., is a copy of the earliest known tract of laws enacted by the Puritans. One of two known contemporary copies of the "Capital Lawes of Now-England," it was printed in London in 1642. The other known copy is in the British Museum...
Christmas present to the U.S. In the package: Genius Edison's old five-building laboratory in West Orange, N.J., his gabled Victorian house near by, his library of some 10,000 books, most of the earliest working models of his inventive "firsts." Among the heirlooms: the first universal stock-market ticker, the first successful phonograph, the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb, the first generator to produce electricity efficiently...
...those who wish to broaden their knowledge on a century or so of fashion, Widener offers a number of interesting books. Among the earliest of the informative volumes is Mirror of the Graces whose author preferred to be called "A Lady of Distinction." She is a woman of many platitudes: "If beauty be a woman's weapon, it must be featured by the Graces, pointed by the eye of discretion, and shot by the hand of virtue...
Kenneth E. Thompson '57, president of the now defunct HCL, issued a statement agreeing to immediate unification under the name of the NCC, but said the name change "must be made at the earliest possible occasion...