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...watchmakers' claim that they are essential to national security, the Defense Department has said that such non-watchmakers as Eastman Kodak, Bendix Aviation and National Cash Register have supplied splendid timing devices and fuses for the armed forces (although the watchmakers claimed these companies got some of the vital parts from them...
Karl Compton's 18 years as president were golden years for M.I.T. He completed the great George Eastman Research Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry, set up the Graduate School, reorganized the undergraduate course to give M.I.T.'s science and engineering students a better grounding in the liberal arts. During the war, he helped mastermind the atomic bomb project, saw M.I.T. and Harvard turn Cambridge, Mass, into the radar center of the world...
Zeiss and Mr. Eastman and 1% to the man who happens to stand behind the camera." Or, as a dadaist once abjured, "Stop looking! Stop talking...
...your March 1 Art section you referred to a painting of a woman's head "attributed to Joshua Reynolds . . . Former Gallery Director Alvan Eastman thinks the actual painter was one Angelica Kauffmann." This is a very casual way of dismissing one of the only two women artists ever to become R.A.S. Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807), though she may be thought to have had some shallowness of character, had depth in her work, and her great application to her craft was truly remarkable . . . There are . . . points of similarity in the styles of Reynolds and Kauffmann, who were very close friends...
...ALVAN EASTMAN Brookline, Mass...