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TIME'S March review of Crocodile Fever mentions Bryan Dempster as having disappeared and rumored to be "somewhere on [Africa's] Lake Nyasa." I think possibly I am the white hunter to whom you refer, as I have been hunting crocodiles on Lake Nyasa for the past five years. If Dempster had turned up on the lake, I would soon have heard, as news travels fast in the bush...
...Keen, he might well have wanted to send his son away from Stratford, and it was quite possible that he let him flee with his Catholic schoolmaster Simon Hunt, who apparently found his way to an English Catholic college in Rheims, France. In any case, Shakespeare was later to refer to that college in The Taming of the Shrew ("I . . . freely give unto you this young scholar that hath been long studying at Rheims"), and it would have been there that he would have met the exile Thomas Houghton, one of the college's benefactors and the Catholic brother...
...your Feb. 15 discussion of the Tate Gallery's affairs, when you refer to the charge that "the Tate trustees had sold good paintings, bought inferior works at inflated prices," you do not specify what they sold, what bought. Actually what was lately sold was a nude bather by Renoir, whose popularity in contemporary America you document in your color spread in the same issue. They sold it for $16,800 . . . and their principal purchase from this money was Picasso's cubist Seated Nude Woman...
...continuum were called upon; and for the most ambiguous of statements in paint it was asserted that the artist was reflecting the confusion, the disillusion, of our times. "This sort of rationalization after the fact reached such a point . . . that the correspondent of one European paper was moved to refer to some of the more extreme nonobjective painters as 'the deadend kids of the Absolute' and their work as 'wallpaper metaphysics...
...come the U.S. Antietam "glows?" I refer to your color spread on U.S. air power. You owe the millions of photographers of the country an explanation of what lit up a carrier so brilliantly that you can take a night color photo, obviously from an airplane. Are those lights on the side standard gear on the new carriers...