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Cleveland traces its Diana back to 1796, when Amsterdam Widow Elizabeth Hooft sold it. The painting was authenticated in 1959 by the late Dr. Ludwig Burchard. then the greatest living Rubens expert, who flatly discounted rumors that it was really the work of Rubens' assistant, Frans Snyders. Burchard. pointing out the dog that Diana caresses, said that Snyders "could never have created on his own an animal so highly expressive both in movement and feeling." The birds in the background, the flowers in the foreground, the "freshness and luminous color," he concluded, stamped it an early Rubens original...
...Amsterdam in 1948 or Evanston in 1954," said Manhattan Lawyer Charles Parlin, the Methodist layman who will serve as one of the Council's presidents. "It has been an extremely serious, united effort of giving directives for work." The Council's General Secretary, Willem Visser 't Hooft (TIME cover, Dec. 8), agreed that "we have received pretty clear marching orders," although, he added cautiously, "some of them will have to be worked out a little further...
...Taut Ship. In Geneva, Visser 't Hooft runs a staff of about 179, housed in a rambling cluster of chalets and barracks (until 1963. when the Council's new headquarters will be finished). Here he chain smokes his way efficiently through the day in a combination of informality (staffers phone or barge in on him directly, without going through his secretary) and protocol (he is acutely aware of any breach of seniority in seating at a conference or dinner table...
Visser 't Hooft's stern Dutch face reflects warmth and good fellowship over a drink or at the staff's daily 15-minute tea party, but the ship he runs at Geneva is taut. He is capable of festive foolery: at an office party each St. Nicholaas Eve (Dec. 5), he sings a song consisting of good-natured personal gibes at the staff. He travels plenty. "If I hold any kind of a record," he says, "it is for attending international conferences. I wonder...
Visser 't Hooft's chief hobby is Rembrandt. He first grew interested simply because Rembrandt, a fellow countryman, was one of history's greatest painters and had contributed so much to the world of art. But as he learned more about him, he realized that Rembrandt had done an extraordinary number of Biblical paintings. "He had a certain conception of the Bible," says Wim. "I became interested in what he was trying to say." But he found no books that told him, so the World Council's Visser 't Hooft wrote one himself: Rembrandt...