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Last week, while the old country grappled with Hitler's Blitzkrieg, Grand Rapids' happier Dutch went to their prim, pillared Art Gallery to see the biggest collection of Dutch art Grand Rapids had ever seen. With eleven top-flight portraits by Rembrandt and Frans Hals as its central attraction, the exhibition (valued at some $2,000,000) covered 500 years of finely-turned painting, from the squirming, mystical fantasies of 15th-Century Hieronymus Bosch to the geometric designs of 20th-century Piet Mondrian. What made Grand Rapids Dutch almost as proud: the name of practically every artist...
...them died of it. Last week the knowledge doctors have gleaned from these victims was collected in three massive volumes: Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases (Hoeber; $36). Edited by Drs. George Thomas Pack and Edward Meakin Livingston of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, this pooled knowledge of top-flight specialists gave doctors a storehouse of practical information...
Good, grey Historian Adams (The Epic of America) writes with unvarying civility and a firm point of view. It would be hard to find a single top-flight English historian so outspoken in his admiration of British achievement as this U. S. scholar. U. S. readers may feel that Adams' Anglophilia becomes at times a little humid, at times pompous; but by & large it is powerfully sustained...
...winners of this meet will go to the intercollegiate meet to compete with pilots from Yale, Princeton, and several other Eastern colleges. There the "Oldest Flying Club" hopes to maintain its claim of being a top-flight outfit...
...ability to find eager, knowing young assistants who work hard for small pay. Several of his curators-Henry Plumer Mcllhenny, Henry Clifford, Boies Penrose -are so well off that Kimball affectionately calls them "my millionaires." Down into their pockets dig these three for many of the museum's top-flight special exhibitions. Even more significant is a growing list of "my young men" who now head important U. S. museums and got their first museum training under Kimball at Philadelphia. Some of them: Director-elect Francis Taylor of the Metropolitan, the Brooklyn Museum's Lauranee Roberts. Richard Foster...