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...there came a hint from Detroit's unconventional Bill Stout, whose famed engineering-jargon dictum is: "Simplicate, and add more light-ness." Said Designer Stout: "Airplane manufacturers know immensely more about making gears than auto manufacturers. They can build a better, bigger...
General Adolphe Eugene Marie Sicé (pronounced See-say), High Commissioner of Free French Africa, stopped off in Manhattan on his way to London last week and received encomiums on his stout work in freeing French Equatorial Africa from the rule of Vichy. Earlier stout work by the General was not so much in the news. But it was flies-specifically the tsetse fly-from which General Sicé had first set his black people free...
...Germanic Museum, the Semitic Museum and affiliated Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, D. C., The Fogg branches into a network of specialized divisions. The Department of Conservation is probably the most fascinating with its tasks of detecting art fakes and of restoring damaged works. Under George L. Stout, who spends part of his time at Boston's Gardner Museum, is arrayed a staff of six specialists in this line...
...York but its owner could find no purchaser. It was sent to The Fogg for inspection with complete data on its history of being stolen from a European collection and smuggled into the country. It was certified by two German and one French expert, but preliminary examination by Stout's department showed immediately that all was not right. When the glue was finally tested, it was quickly seen that the picture could not possibly have been painted before 1820. The owner was informed quietly of the true situation and the picture returned...
...Winton, an eight-year-old gelding owned and ridden by Socialite Stuart S. Janney Jr: the 49th running of the Maryland Hunt Cup, stiffest steeplechase in the U.S.; outjumping eight stout rivals and finishing the awesome four-mile course in 8 min., 44 4/5 sec.; near Baltimore. Having won the Grand National and My Lady's Manor point-to-points on two previous Saturdays, Janney & Winton made a grand slam of Maryland's famed hunt races-a feat never before accomplished...