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...supposed pornography marked. Bluff, rollicking Cartoonist Capp, who started out as Fisher's apprentice 22 years ago, also gets off some free-handed statements. In an Atlantic Monthly article titled "I Remember Monster.'' Capp wrote that one of his early bosses was "a certain treasure trove of lousiness, who, in the normal course of each day of his life, managed to be. in dazzling succession, every conceivable kind of a heel...
...Holy Bible, a comfort and a bulwark of doctrine for plain Christians, is a mighty challenge for serious scholars and a treasure trove for cranks. The ordinary layman reads little of the work of either-scholars are all too often unreadable, cranks are generally unpublishable. But when a crank has the reputation and writing ability of Novelist Robert (I, Claudius) Graves, publishers are glad to let him run on for page after page. The Nazarene Gospel Restored (Doubleday; $10), by Robert Graves and Joshua Podro, published last week, runs...
...past three years, half of the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been closed down for remodeling, and much of the museum's impressive trove of old and modern masters has been hidden away from public view. Last week the nation's No. 1 repository of art reopened its picture galleries: 44 completely modernized rooms equipped with every device designed to make picture-viewing easy and enjoyable. In the first two days, more than 25.000 visitors trooped (admission: free) into the refurbished picture galleries on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue to enjoy one of the world...
...seller of art, Paul Rosenberg has made a fortune. Unlike those dealers who consider it unethical to buy anything for themselves, he has also amassed for his own enjoyment one of the world's finest private collections of modern French art. Last week Rosenberg's personal trove was on public view for the first time...
Britain's Dr. Ernest Jones is just the right man for the job. For years he was one of Freud's closest friends (TIME, Aug. 10), and the Freud family has turned over to him a trove of unpublished letters and confidential information. The present volume is only the first of a projected three, but it is enough to suggest that the completed work will be a masterpiece of contemporary biography...