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...brush of the late great Edouard Manet, perked up the National Gallery's feeble Prench section like a shot of vitamins. Besides the Manet, rated as fine as the Dejeuner sur I'Herbe in the Louvre, Collector Dale's loan contained an assort ment of top-flight Renoirs, Degas and Corots, two Courbets, a superb Fantin-Latour, and important works by such 19th-Century painters as Eugene Delacroix and Jacques-Louis David. That Chester Dale's "loan" might be a permanent one was excitedly conceded last week in museum circles...
...General Convention to study the church's position on world affairs and by 24 other prominent Episcopalians appointed as advisers to the commission by Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker, who was himself a member of the group. Among the signers were nine bishops, a dozen ministers, such top-flight laymen as longtime (1897-1939) A. F. of L. Secretary Frank Morrison, President, J. Peter Williams Jr. of Koppers Coal, Vice President Harvey S. Firestone Jr. of Firestone Tire & Rubber, Secretary E. C. Davison of the International Association of Machinists, Labor Consultant Spencer Miller Jr., Lawyer Charles P. Taft...
Sensitively directed, Report to the Nation is also knowingly and neatly written. "Truly" Warner, who supervises the selection of topics and acts as narrator on the program, knows Washington thoroughly, has a top-flight newsman's ability to make coherent sense of what is going on. In voice and manner he is also well fitted to carry out CBS's policy on news broadcasts : no overexcitement, no overstatement. But for all its narrator's calm, the Report has dramatized many a big news story at the moment it broke...
Recently four top-flight Pan Am troubleshooters, on a survey flight were forced to return to the Caribbean without going south of Natal. They were flying a Grumman amphibian which required special flight permissions, and these the Brazilian Aeronautics Ministry, which is a cumbersome body, including some Nazi sympathizers, refused to grant...
This conclusion could not be lightly laughed off. It was made in Aviation, top-flight technical magazine, by T. P. Wright, assistant chief of OPM's aircraft branch and onetime production expert of Curtiss-Wright Corp...