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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McCall, retired St. Louis public-utilities developer, a man who was wont to tread on rare Tabriz rugs and drink from cut glass goblets said to have been fingered by mad King Ludwig of Bavaria. Some of McCall's paintings bore such signatures as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, Sir Thomas Gainsborough. But certain Memphis newsmen were not impressed. They called on fastidious Dr. Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner, Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Valentiner's thudding opinion: the City of Memphis had been stung...
...incredible Great Lakes smelt situation was so described last week by Dr. John Van Oosten of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The vast smelt population of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron (where some 95% of U.S. fresh water smelts lived) had suddenly vanished. Two years ago fishermen took 5,000,000 Ib. of smelts there; last year, 1,000,000. Total catch this winter: 2 Ib. No one knew why the smelts had died...
Pathologists could find no clue to the disease; there seemed to be nothing wrong with the fish anatomically (a diseased fish usually shows ruptures or lesions). Said Dr. Van Oosten: "I am completely at a loss. The fish died regardless of sex, age, size, spawning condition or anything else." Last week Dr. Van Oosten hastened to Crystal Lake, where the smelts still seemed healthy, to fish and analyze further...
...Negroes to visit white schools and vice versa is to tempt them. Novelist Carl Van Vechten (The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven, Peter Whiffle) has done just that with a scheme involving Yale and Fisk Universities...
Last week Fisk was preparing to install a Van Vechten gift, the George Gershwin Memorial Collection of Music and Musical Literature, which may be the South's best musical library. It includes letters (by Gershwin, Puccini, Humperdinck, Gounod, Meyerbeer-but none by Negro musicians), operatic and other scores, U.S. first editions, a vast heap of recordings, bursting scrapbooks of U.S. musical history. All this can hardly fail to seduce white scholars from Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Chapel Hill and Duke Universities...