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...Catton Rich: "St. Bartholomew was done just before Rembrandt entered into his early success in Amsterdam and began to turn out rather slick, social portraits. Its deep, inner power foretells the late, introspective Rembrandts-an interesting link between his youth and old age when he painted some of his greatest works...
...outcry following this journalistic coup, Galeazzi-Lisi first defended his act ("I waited until my patient was dead"), then denied that he had received "un soldo" for his pains, then resigned his post. The College of Cardinals banned him from the Vatican. As the storm of censure mounted, the greatest cry was appropriately against the money-hungry doctor rather than the story-hungry press. Milan's daily Il Giorno (circ. 150,000), coming to the astonished realization that the Pope's chief physician was not a tried clinician, asked what was, perhaps, the most startling question raised...
Toward the end of a tatterdemalion 20th Century-Fox film called Harry Black and the Tiger (TIME, Oct. 13), now showing in all the nabes. Hero Stewart Granger beds down with the wife of a close friend, and it is with the greatest reluctance that she finally returns to her husband. Not so much as a snowflake of retribution drops on either of them; it was, the movie makes clear, a most enjoyable affair for both parties. Because Harry Black is just a potboiler, rather than an "art film," the liberties taken in the picture point up the fact long...
Died. George Edward Moore, 84, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University, author (Philosophical Studies, Principia Ethica), whose neorealistic philosophy influenced Bertrand Russell; in Cambridge. One historian of philosophy called him the "greatest, acutest, and most skillful questioner of modern philosophy...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.)* The House of Flying Objects is based on the strange happenings in the house of James M. Herrmann of Seaford, L.I., where eight months ago lamps, bottles and furniture apparently flew through the air with the greatest of ease (TIME, March 17). The script leaves the solution to the mystery right up in the air along with all the household effects...