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...experts, some of whom had solemnly verified the forged Vermeers, were now at work with their biggest X-ray machines and subtlest chemicals to prove Van Meegeren a fraud when his case comes up next month (although The Netherlands Government's information service has already said that "there can be no doubt that this mad genius did paint the seven pictures attributed to Vermeer...
...relentless lampooner of high society who, in his nightclubs, has often suddenly leered over an especially low neckline with a solicitous '"Pardon me, madame, dew you feel a draft?'" Jimmy's own show business takes a constant beating from him. Perhaps the subtlest of all his comic achievements is his parody of the way in which many people from his own proletarian background maltreat the culture they so earnestly desire to achieve. A great deal of his highest comedy is deeply rooted in his own past...
...about 30 such towns, audiences of 200 to 1,000 will pay from $400 to $1,500 to hear the Budapest, confident that the great quartet music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert will be exquisitely interpreted. The Budapest four play with the warmest understanding of their scores, the subtlest of teamwork and an almost incredible matching of tone. Their splendid recorded performances for Victor and Columbia have recently sold to the lively tune of about 300,000 records a year...
Leopard By Her Bed. Beryl Markham came to the subtlest and most primal of continents when she was four, to a farm that was painfully hacked out of the dense Kenya forests near Nairobi. Her principal childhood companions were her hard, taciturn, horse-breeding father, some half-naked Negro huntsmen and a ferocious bulldog hybrid named Duller, who somehow survived abduction (from the foot of little Miss Markham's bed) by a leopard, which...
...junior meteorologist, a plane pilot, the flangers-and the dangerous steam rotaries which clear the railroad lines of snow, a dam superintendent, the men who handle the highway plows . . . men, beasts and things, in short, infinitesimally at work against the enormous collusions of air, water, sun, earth, and subtlest chance...