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...alike in pursuing their objects fast, noisily, and "efficiently." After all, aside from aims and standards, the successful criminal represents much that is worthy per se: certainty as to goal and attainment through careful planning; not to mention the acquisition of a competence and a certain Robin-Hood glamor and daring...
...design of this cultural-commercial group of buildings, as yet nothing but three excavated city blocks, has been flayed as a "monstrosity." Its construction without adequate transportation planning has been called a "crime" because its inhabitants will congest an already over-congested area. Last week bristle-haired Raymond Mathewson Hood, one of the three designers of Radio City, went to its defense in an interview in which he praised congestion as a great civilizing force.* Declared Architect Hood...
...Architect Hood designed the Chicago Tribune Tower (with John Mead Howells), the New York Daily News building, is on the Chicago World's Fair planning commission...
...Fogg Art Museum, hanging in a position of considerable importance is a picture of a "Madonna and Child" from the school of Giovanni Bellini. The Madonna wears a red gown, brilliant blue mantle, and luminous silvery white hood. The drapery of the background is bright yellow green. The sky on the left is pale blue, and the rocks neutral brown. The parapet is a dark red brown; the book is red. On the parapet is the signature: Ioannes Bellinvs...
...picture shows the sweet and grave dignity typical of Bellini, but it is almost certainly the work of one of his pupils, perhaps Niccolo Rondinelli. In the Layard collection of the National Gallery is another version, differing only in that the Madonna's hood is more elaborately embroidered and that there is more of the landscape visible on the left. This panel also is signed on the parapet: Ioannes Bellinvs. Crowe and Cavalcaselle think that Basaiti helped Bellini in the Layard Collection picture. Mr. Perkins believes that these pictures were executed by Rondinelli. He states (1905) that a third version...