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Discoveries like this are recurrent mysteries in the art world. Often enough they end in disappointment. What made Carlo Noya's picture sensational is that, although there are many Leonardo drawings, experts concede only 13 (some only four) da Vinci paintings to exist. The British Museum has one of the best of numerous pen studies for a Madonna with the Cat. In Britain, too, is the one man whom Italian scholars need to consult before pronouncing their find authentic, Sir Kenneth McKenzie Clark, director of the National Gallery since...
...obscure subaltern. Clark's qualifications consisted mainly in the esteem of Critic Bernard Berenson (TIME, April 10) and two years of work with him in Florence. But with the job went a sure succession of official honors for tall, personable, athletic Kenneth Clark, and publication of the catalogue made him in due time the foremost modern authority on Leonardo da Vinci. Fortnight ago in London and Manhattan appeared the full harvest gathered from Subaltern Clark's wide province: a fresh appraisal of Leonardo* and his growth as an artist, based on evidence uncovered in the drawings. As truly...
...Newport News, Va. one noon last week Anna Eleanor Roosevelt cracked a bottle of U. S. champagne over the steel prow of the biggest, costliest (34,000-ton, $17,000,000) passenger ship ever made in the U. S., christened her America. As 30,000 well-wishers gave a lusty cheer, America glided sedately down ways slicked with 45,000 Ibs. of grease. Proudest man there was Chairman of the Maritime Commission Rear Admiral Emory Scott ("Jerry") Land, under whose supervision United States Lines' big* liner had been constructed. At scoffers he scoffed: "For the dogmatic and somewhat cynical...
...formed Oriental Consolidated Mining Co. with the aid of British capital and U. S. engineers, was mining gold. His British bankers, however, believing their own engineers' reports that the enterprise was worthless, unloaded their Oriental holdings on the English public. Six years later they found they had made a tactical error. Since 1903 Oriental has grossed an average $3,000,000 worth of gold a year, paid $14,379,395 in dividends...
...Cambridge, he made friends with future Philosopher Bertrand Russell and future Diplomat Maurice Baring. Cutup Baring sometimes filled Marsh's French pastry with quinine, sometimes wrote such T. S. Eliot poetry...