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...machines are highly effective, and the main obstacle to their wider use is cost, says the University of Utah's Dr. Willem Johan Kolff, who developed the artificial kidney and made the first crude model in his native Netherlands during the Nazi occupation. Kolff feels that "treatment should be done in the home, or in community centers, not in hospitals. Doctors should be left out of the picture almost entirely , they're too expensive. The doctor should only have to be brought in when there are complications...
...movement." That it will be: the 1,330 clerics and laymen who are expected to attend include delegates from the council's 232 member denominations, as well as 15 official Roman Catholic observers. Privately, however, many council officials agree with the concerned forecast made by retired General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft that "confusion reigns supreme-politically, theologically, socially...
...landscapes acquired in 1923 by Philadelphia's Albert C. Barnes, some of which were later resold to other collectors and found their way into Manhattan galleries. The purchase set Soutine on the road to financial independence and made his work available for New York artists, turning Soutine, Willem-nilly, into a link in the chain of artistic development that runs from Van Gogh to De Kooning...
Similarly, the reader of nonfiction in 1922 kept ahead of the novel nut. H. G. Wells's The Outline of History and Hendrik Willem Van Loon's The Story of Mankind led the nonfiction list that year. The top novel was If Winter Comes, by the leading bleeder of the year, A.S.M. Hutchinson, whose This Freedom was No. 7, followed by Edith M. Hull's The Sheik. Sinclair Lewis' great period piece, Babbitt, did make the first ten, sharing last place with a forgotten field of corn called Helen of the Old House, by Harold Bell...
...most critics, Willem de Kooning at 63 is the foremost living U.S. painter to emerge in the postwar period. But the reclusive white-locked dean of a bstract expressionism has not had a Manhattan exhibit of new work in five years, largely because the attendant bustle drives him to the brink of distraction. Thus, when 45 De Kooning oils and 50 drawings, mostly completed in the past four years, went on view at Manhattan's Knoedler & Co. this week, it was the most eagerly anticipated art gallery exhibit of the season...