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...London, published a crown-folio-size book, Leonardo da Vinci, which was first-page art news for its broad inclusiveness, handsome reproduction, excellent taste and $4.50 pricing.* Included with the book's full gallery of Leonardo's paintings, drawings, mechanical designs and sculpture was a short foreword by compiler Ludwig Goldscheider and a reprinting of Vasari's classic 16th-Century life of the artist...
...owner of one of the strangest stomachs in existence. This stomach was the subject last week of a book (Human Gastric Function; Oxford University Press; $4.75), by Drs. Stewart Wolf and Harold G. Wolff of Manhattan's New York Hospital. Says famed Physiologist Walter B. Cannon in his foreword: "The functions of the stomach have never been investigated with the detailed care, the skill and ingenuity" that Drs. Wolf & Wolff display in their researches on Tom's stomach...
...takes Little Joe Jackson ("Rochester") and his wife Petunia (Ethel Waters) through Joe's moral predicaments, including a nightclub scorcher named Georgia Brown (Lena Horne), on his way to a needle's-eye squeeze into heaven. M.G.M. adds insult to insensitivity by issuing a pretentious screen-print foreword of legend sources and race dreams: "The folklore of America has origins in ... all races, all colors. This story . . . seeks to capture those values...
With such deep cleavage in policy, it is no wonder that America ended the ten year period engaged, in a war for which she was woefully unprepared. But in the final analysis, the entire lack of unity, as explained by the embracing foreword, was based on the gap between the foresight of the Executive and the relative caution of popular opinion. As totalitarian brutality slowly converted the American public and molded it behind its Administration, American diplomacy began to ring with the note of determination. Finally, following Pearl Harbor, isolationism, in its original shape, died, and "Peace...
Addams, whom Publisher Bennett Cerf describes as "the gentlest and the kindliest old schizophrene," and for whose work Boris Karloff (who contributes a foreword) has a "whole-souled admiration," is not preoccupied only with married life. From the specialized madnesses of the bedroom and boudoir it is only a stroke of the Addams' hand to universal madness. Drawn and Quartered includes his drawings of and that haunting simile of the mind's disintegration: ski tracks divided by a large tree...