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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles de Tolnay got his appointment to the Institute in 1939. He left France with his wife on the day of French mobilization. His library-a fine one-had preceded him. Behind him was a European career marked by outstanding monographs on Breugel the Elder, Hieronymus Bosch, the brothers van Eyck, and brilliant lectures at the Sorbonne...
Died. Hobart Van Zandt Bosworth, 76, pioneer cinemactor; in Glendale, Calif. Born in Marietta, Ohio, Bosworth ran off to sea at twelve, at 19 joined a stock company, soon rose to leading parts with Minnie Maddern Fiske and Julia Marlowe. Pronounced fatally tuberculous, seven years later he earned $125 for two days' work as the star of the first movie made on the Pacific Coast: a one-reeler, The Sultan's Power (1909). Three of his 500-odd subsequent films: The Big Parade, Woman of Affairs, The Miracle...
...John D. Gust, Lewis H. Levy, Harry A. Livermore, Claude E. Love, Gordon E. Marks, Virden M. Mitchell, J. Stanley Nants, Benjamin M. Stephens, John R. Taylor, James H. Templin, William P. Trenkle, Don A. Turner, Frederick C. Turner, Lieutenants (jg) Carl A. Fischer, James W. Fowle, Charles E. Van Voorhis, Lieutenant James J. Flynn...
Says Professor C. J. Van der Horst: "The baboon is functionally so closely related to man that scientists in other parts of the world would regard it as a great forward step . . . if they could experiment on baboons instead of . . . cats, dogs, mice, guinea pigs and rabbits." Science has already given the monkeys stomach ulcers, will soon use them for work on diseases of women and malnutrition...
South Carolina-born Editor Boyd studied at Duke University, got a doctorate at Franklin & Marshall. He is a distinguished younger U.S. historian, has collaborated with such able writers as Franklin biographer Carl Van Doren and the University of Pennsylvania's Roy Franklin Nichols. With hobbies running from gardening to handsetting type, Boyd shares some of Jefferson's own tastes. Among topics of lasting interest treated with passion and discrimination in the writings of the great Virginian: politics, government, history, art, science, literature, agriculture, music, architecture, education, mathematics, business, newspapers, wine-drinking...