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Died. Daniel George van Beuningen, 78, retired Dutch businessman, famed as the owner of one of the great private art collections of Europe; of an embolism; in Arlesheim, Switzerland. To prove that the Last Supper in his collection was a genuine Vermeer, Van Beuningen brought suit in 1952 against famed Belgian Art Expert Paul Coremans, who claimed that the picture was actually one of the fakes that Dutch Art Forger Hans van Meegeren started unloading on the European art market in the late 1930s. Van Beuningen died two days before the oft-postponed suit was to come to trial...
...feather-wit last of all. Good Country People looses Mrs.Hopewell, who "had no bad qualities of her own but . . . was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack." When she invites a young, Bible-peddling wool-hat to supper, he winds up taking her crippled daughter to a hayloft, fortifies himself with whisky (which he carries in a hollowed-out Bible), and steals the girl's wooden...
...loving old couple, Baucis and Philemon, serve their unexpected guests-in-disguise, Jupiter and Mercury, a humble supper of cabbage and bacon, but first...
...order to restore pictures to something approximating their original state. Sometimes they scrub with too much enthusiasm, destroying the translucent glazes of a picture surface and reducing it to the artist's bare beginnings. More often, as in the case of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper (TIME, Oct. 4), they succeed in bringing back much of the painting's original bloom and freshness. Their greatest, and rarest, delight lies in discovering new and better pictures beneath the old, as Cellini did in Rome...
...racers, equipped with maps and wearing numbers so that race officials can check that they do not use automobiles or trucks to improve their speed, have a course of 15 miles to cover in their quest. All contestants will be revived with a picnic supper at Wellesley after the race...