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...great burst of overdue news about the desperate, last-ditch struggle to hold the Dutch East Indies, the U.S. Navy last week told the story in detail. Its narrator was six-foot, whip-lean Commander Paul Hopkins Talbot, leader of the squadron of four 1917-model destroyers that needled the convoy again & again & again, and got away without dropping a stitch...
Desdiv (destroyer division) 59 was cruising south of Celebes when it got word to head for Macassar Strait. It quickly found out why. It was to blast the convoy at Balikpapan, peppered that day by Dutch bombers. The monsoon was kicking up a rough sea when Talbot's division set out, at 25 knots...
...monuments in California and the Southwest. But the frontier simplicity of the Spanish missions stands in almost the same relation to the glories of Latin-American architecture as the stockade fort to the refined colonial of New England and the South. A comprehensive exhibition arranged by Architectural Historian Talbot Faulkner Hamlin, of Latin America's rich architectural tradition was running last week in the Avery Architectural Library at Columbia University. Some 200 photographs and reproductions of drawings, arranged in showcases and neatly labeled, outlined the development of architecture south of the Rio Grande, from its massive stone beginnings...
White-bearded, beaming Talbot Hamlin, an architect who has built houses, banks and colleges from Nanking to Manhattan, settled down eight years ago as librarian of the Avery Library to view architecture from the sidelines and to write the finest popular book (Architecture Through the Ages; Putnam; $6) in English on its history. Though he views the past greatness of Mexican architecture with a historian's enthusiasm, he believes that the best contemporary Latin-American architecture is being done by the Argentines and Brazilians, who today are rivaling the finest modern architects of the U.S. and Europe...
Walter Le Mar Talbot...