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...case of Caravaggio's missing Musicians. Seventeenth-century contemporaries glowingly described the masterpiece. But though modern experts looked high & low, they could find no record of the painting-much less the painting itself. Once in the early 1920s, an Italian thought he spotted it in the col lection of Florence's Uffizi Palace; it turned out to be the work of an admirer. Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art proudly announced that Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's Musicians had turned up and been identified beyond a doubt. Furthermore, the museum had bought...
...France and Belgium, the Sélection du Reader's Digest is the biggest (936,070) of all monthlies. In Sweden, Det Bästa ur Readers Digest (circ. 268,184) is the biggest monthly, as Selezione dal Reader's Digest is in Italy and Valitut Palat koon-nut Reader's Digest is in Finland. The Portuguese-and Spanish-language Digests are tops all over the continent of South America; the Japanese edition is now 651,000. The Digest is printed in eleven languages, read in 58 nations. In the U.S., 31,000 U.S. blind read...
That is the main thing that bothers the hero of ex-Physicist Mitchell Wilson's long-winded novel (a Literary Guild se lection for October). The hero's other worry: that private interests are hypnotizing the U.S. public with the A-bomb while they quietly muscle in on Washington to seize control of atomic energy. Hardy readers who plow through all of Lightning's small type will learn what he does about it and, incidentally, what life can be like for an atomic physicist these days. There seems to be frustration aplenty...
...Salt Lake City, the Crime Prevention Bureau reported that its col lection of toy pistols (for the amusement of lost children) had disappeared...
...Guardsman O'Sullivan, now 30, seemed satisfied with the translation. "Here is the egg of a sea-bird," writes Author E. M. Forster in a preface, "lovely, perfect, and laid this very morning." Twenty Years A-Growing is the Book-of-the-Month Club's August se lection...