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...half pounds) art book. The historian is 51-year-old German-born Erwin Panofsky, of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. The book is Albrecht Dürer (Princeton University Press; $20), a two-volume analytical study of Germany's great post-medieval engraver, painter, art theorist. It is the most useful and enlightening Dürer monograph yet to appear...
...impractical theorist, Friedrich's faith in the common man as the "world citizen of Pan-humanity" comes from first-hand experiences with his fellow citizens. Following the post war inflation, he worked in the coal mines of Holland...
...theorist but a practical fighter, Ben Lear picked Lieut. Colonel William Crowell Saffarrans, chunky onetime Georgetown University football star, longtime Army football coach, to operate the school. His instructions: make it practical, up-to-date as Guadalcanal...
...theory is the only one that accounts for the presumed age of the sun (some two billion years) and also for its enormous steady production of energy. Says Theorist Bethe: "At the rate of one cent per kilowatt hour we should have to pay a billion billion dollars to keep the sun going for a single second...
...Apart from war casualties in 1942, the following went to their deaths: Historian Guglielmo Ferrero; French journalist and political theorist Count Raoul de Roussy de Sales (The Making of Tomorrow); Poet William Alexander Percy, whose prose work Lanterns on the Levee was one of 1941's most substantial contributions to American letters; Poet Alan Porter; dog-lover Albert Payson Terhune; popular Novelists Rachel Field, Alice Hegan Rice, Alice Duer Miller (The White Cliffs...