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...call came-and what the army discovered about Jean is currently the talk of France. The mind of the peasant boy, it turned out upon testing, is comparable to that of Pascal or Leonardo da Vinci...
...United Kingdom in common indignation. The earl wrote in his capacity as chairman of the National Art-Collections Fund-a body founded 59 years ago expressly to protect Britain's treasures from falling into the hands of acquisitive American millionaires. Now the fund was out to protect Leonardo's exquisite drawing of the Virgin and child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist, which its owner, the Royal Academy, intended to sell at auction to get itself out of the red. The fund had decided to launch a public appeal "to secure this incomparable treasure...
There was no doubt about the drawing's importance: it is believed to be Leonardo's first conception of the great Virgin and Child with St. Anne that hangs in the Louvre. The price it was supposed to bring at Sotheby's next June was ?1,000,000, or $500,000 more than the record-breaking $2,300,000 that the Metropolitan Museum of Art paid last November for Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. The staggering sum only increased the shock of the academy's announcement. Having sneered at the fusty place...
...decry the whole by-jingo fuss: "There is something slightly ridiculous about the present outburst of patriotic excitement to retain this Italian drawing, for the national habit is to get art on the cheap." The Herald might have added that the public's concern for the Leonardo was a rather blatant case of love at first sight. The drawing has long hung beyond public view in the academy's frayed Council Room, and in all of 1961, only a handful of visitors asked...
...York to the Caribbean. Grace Lines this week launched its sleek new 14,000-ton Santa Magdalena, which will carry cargo and 127 passengers between New York and west coast ports in South America. So profitable is the cruise business in fact that even big transatlantic liners like the Leonardo da Vinci and the United States are being diverted for special vacation cruises during the winter season, and the French Line is "considering" cruises for the France...