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...Died. Hendrik Willem van Loon, 62, merchant prince of literary popularizers ; of a heart attack ; in Old Greenwich, Conn. The pleasure-loving, 290-lb., 6 ft. 3 in. Cornellman ('05) was successively a Washington reporter, Belgian and Russian correspondent, European graduate student, U.S. college professor (Antioch, 1922-23), associate editor of the Baltimore Sun (1923-24). He discovered his talent for the affable packaging of intellectual pabulum with his Story of Mankind (1921). With a roughage of Dutch wit, a vitamin-content of "human-interest background," and doodled-over with his own pen-&-ink sketches, his The Story...
Died. Dr. Leo Hendrik" Baekeland, 80, father of plastics; in Beacon, N.Y. In 1909 courtly, dignified, Belgian-born Baekeland invented Bakelite (oxybenzyl-methylenglycolanhydride) - the first successful, noninflammable, synthetic solid. He got his start in 1880 when, as the youngest student at the University of Ghent, he developed Velox paper, a photographic milestone which killed tintypes and netted him a reputed $1,000,000 from Eastman Kodak. Baekeland made possible the "improbable sandwich" (plywood) by his work in 1912 on a synthetic resin filler. He was also honored for : separation of cadmium and copper, oxidation of hydrochloric acid under light, dissociation...
...South Africa's Parliament, ardent Nationalist Dr. Daniel François Malan moved that the Union reorganize as a republic outside the British Commonwealth. Last month a weekly partly owned by the Union's Finance Minister Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr had proposed a republic within the British Commonwealth (TIME, Jan. 17). In the Union Parliament, Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts replied directly to Dr. Malan, indirectly to Minister Hofmeyr. Said Smuts: "I expect nothing from your republic. I have been hearing about this republic for the last 25 years and I don't take it seriously any more...
Unpretentious, friendly, brilliant Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr is Finance Minister of South Africa, heir apparent to 73-year-old Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts. Hofmeyr is also part owner of the Forum, South Africa's only liberal weekly. Last week the Forum's editor and Hofmeyr's protege, John Patrick Cope, pricked open two of the Union's deepest sores, proposed a radical cure...
THOMAS JEFFERSON-Hendrik Willem Van Loon-Dodd, Mead ($2.50); The present generation, says Author Van Loon (Van Loon's Geography-TIME, Sept. 12, 1932; The Arts-TIME, Oct. 4, 1937), should have object lessons in the lives of "nice, comfortable, decent, human heroes with nobility in their souls." Thomas Jefferson is such a lesson-106 pages of amiable discourse. Only a general outline is given of Jefferson as statesman, and the book is likely to go down best with youth. Illustrations in color and line-plus-wash by the author...