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...dimly lit church of San Luigi dei Francesi. But this time, aided by the strong artificial light of the Milan gallery, where it was on loan, he thought he saw a vague overlapping of paint surfaces around the fallen figure of St. Matthew. He persuaded government art authorities to X-ray the canvas...
Three months and 96 X-ray pictures later, the experts were able to assemble what looked at first glance like a chaotic triple exposure. Studied closely, the pictures showed that Caravaggio had unmistakably started two earlier versions of his famous painting on the same canvas, and covered them over. The experts isolated parts of ten figures, deduced which of them belonged to each version, and filled them out in painstaking sketches. In a pamphlet published last week, Critic Venturi reported the findings...
...were to X-ray every Oscar," says Movie Producer Sam Katzman, waving a cigar the size of a shinny stick, "you'd find every one of them has an ulcer inside." "Jungle Sam" Katzman probably will never have either an Oscar or an ulcer. He specializes in such surefire blends of sex and adventure as Serpent of the Nile and Battle of Rogue River, plus a stream of quickies for the cap-pistol set (Chief of the Senecas, Jet Commandos), and a seemingly endless chain-ten so far-of Jungle Jim pictures. Jungle Sam never spends more than half...
Like most roentgenologists, Dr. Hodges looks forward to the day when fluorescent screens themselves will be improved. Brightened up by television techniques, they may permit the use of ordinary cameras rather than the bulky astronomer's telescope. But whatever other improvements are made in abdominal X-ray cameras, the patient will still face the unpleasant task of downing a barium highball before he poses for a picture...
...Numerical analysis" and "X-ray Metallography" will occupy the attention of two new visiting lecturers in Applied Science, come this spring term...