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Lucas van Leyden was one who sat at Dürer's feet, but as his Mary with Child shows, he worked in a still more tenderly mysterious vein than that of his master. At the Virgin's left sits a powerful and pensive Mary Magdalene, holding a jar of ointment and looking like a second, less spiritual mother to the child, a sort of earth mother. At her feet kneels the picture's donor, who wanted himself painted as a pilgrim...
...that the University will be losing more than an astronomer when his resignation becomes effective: he has always loved to teach and been concerned with undergraduates, who regard him as their best friend in the Department. Yet when Shapley first offered him an Observatory fellowship at a meeting in Leyden, Bok thought Harvard was just an observatory, and did not understand that it was also a university. Yet later he was to become critical of his Department and at one point say, "a university that does not exist for teaching has lost direction...
...Appointment of the week: Quaker Hugh Borton, 53, to succeed Geographer Gilbert White as president of the nation's oldest Quaker college, Haverford. A Haverford graduate ('26), Borton studied at Tokyo Imperial University (now Tokyo University), got his Ph.D. at the State University of Leyden in The Netherlands. From 1942 to 1948, he served in the State Department, rose to be chief of the Division of Northeast Asian Affairs. When Haverford picked him out of 250 candidates, he was professor of Japanese and director of the East Asian Institute at Columbia University...
...route, the show's 101 paintings added up to $5,600,000 worth of art masterworks, ranging in period from late Renaissance to Braque and Matisse, in size from a 20-ft. Monet Nymphéas to an 11-in Madonna and Child by Dutch Master Lucas van Leyden. Owner of this treasure trove (plus an estimated 2,000 additional paintings and drawings and some 1,000 pieces of sculpture stacked away in apartments and warehouses): Multimillionaire Walter P. Chrysler Jr., at 46 a retired business executive, a sometime book publisher, horse breeder, Broadway producer, collector of odds...
...Norman Leyden, musical director of CBS's The $64,000 Question, helpfully enumerated the types of music required for a big giveaway show. Included are: 1) "Playon music." to fit the personality of the contestant as he comes on stage; 2) "Sorting and Punching music," to fit the mechanical gyrations of the IBM machine as it picks out the card containing questions; 3) "Thinking music," to match the cerebrations of the contestant as he tries to come up with the right answer; and 4) "Cold-Sweat music," to match the audience mood as the contestant broods inside the illuminated...