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Bees and Babies. At Manhattan's City & Country School, Dr. Milton Isra Levine tells children how babies come. Ten years ago, when he started, he went through the old, old rigmarole about the bees and flowers. A twelve-year-old asked: "When are you going to come to the point?" Dr. Levine promptly sat down and had the youngster tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Telling the Children | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

There were exceptions to this tendency, notably the high price of $52,000 which was offered for Jean-Honoré Fragonard's glittering and beautiful self portrait, and the $16,000 brought by Josef Israëls' pretty painting, Her Treasure. Rembrandt's portrait of the Marquis d'Andelot putting on his armor went to the John Levy Galleries for $86,000; A Young Cavalier, by Frans Hals went for one thousand less. The second highest price of the evening was the $90,000 for which Frederick Bucher bought John Hoppner's cool and charming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gary's Gainsborough | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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