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...various versions of one portrait. Rembrandt explored the complexity of his character. He drew his friends: a lawyer, a merchant and Clement de Jonghe, a print seller from Amsterdam. All editions of the portrait of de Jonghe have the same skeletal composition. His strong body is buttoned into a jacket and surrounded by a cape. He sits leaning on the arm of a straight-backed chair, gloved hands resting in front of him. He carries a large-brimmed hat as though it were part of his head...
Rumors abound that the pride of the merchant fleet, the United States, will be mothballed at the end of the year, when its annual Government subsidy of about $12 million runs...
...building of new ships "designed for production, not as works of art." Though Gibson agreed with the proposition that efficient ships can compete internationally without an operating subsidy, he admitted that the end of Government aid was far away. Last year the Government spent $206 million to subsidize the merchant fleet...
Among his varied experience were education at Lowell (Mass.) H. S. and Columbia University and a hifch in the U.S. Merchant Marine. He was living with his wife and paralyzed mother when he died...
Other teams in the regatta were defending champion Yale, Cornell, Navy, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Coast Guard, and Northeastern...