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...book. But, war or no war, the Medical Library Association has now printed a Vesalius Number of its Bulletin. The majestic, often astounding full-page delineations of skeletons, muscles, veins and viscera found in the Fabrica* are generally attributed to Jan van Calcar, Flemish pupil of Titian. But Andreas Vesalius, to a certain extent an unscrupulous self-promoter, brought his book out with no credit to his collaborator...
...Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, titian-topped Countess Renée Maeterlinck told how she got her husband, octogenarian Belgian dramatist Maurice Maeterlinck, to write the memoirs he will publish next autumn: "I trap him as a cat would a mouse. I ask him questions. I make him answer me. Then pretty soon he's writing a book...
...British livestock. Once he left Caroline to "see some Ayrshire cows." While Mrs. W. was chiefly interested in looking at Durham Cathedral, Mr. W. concentrated on buying "one ram and three ewes." At Oxford he went to see "implements of farming." Mrs. W. looked over the colleges, avoiding Titian's paintings of The Loves of the Gods ("The subject not suited to ladies...
Economics. Cross Creek economics, the exchange of goods and services, is primitive but enormously complicated. One debt got Author Rawlings "in so labyrinthine a maze" that she never expected to get out. She thinks it was punishment for shooting Mr. Martin's pig. The pig was a pretty, "titian-haired" barrow, "light of spirit and rounded into delicious curves by his long diet of [Mrs. Rawlings'] biddy-mash, skimmed milk and petunias." One morning angry Author Rawlings "stepped to the petunia bed and shot him dead where he fed." Too late she discovered that the pig belonged...
Early in the 1930's, there was a small group of undergraduates who had the money and desire to purchase works of Titian and Renoir. That rich era of student collectors is now past, and most of the works in the present exhibition are small objects which are enthusiasts have saved...