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...X. BIBLE...
...items whose authenticity is 100% established. So hard did young Mr. McIlhenny plug at this task of curatorial scholarship that his exhibition is by way of being a landmark in the scientific treatment of art. On the cover of the Daumier catalogue is no lithograph or painting but an X-ray photograph. The X-ray shows a section of the wood panel on which Daumier painted La Blanchisseuse (The Laundress), a celebrated work lent by the Louvre and insured for 3,000,000 francs...
...Technical Notes on Daumier," included in the catalogue, Philadelphians are given the results of a study conducted by Art Expert David Rosen and Curator of Paintings Henri Marceau, by means of X-ray and infrared photographs of twelve paintings and seven wash drawings. La Blanchisseuse and most of the other paintings were done on wood. Messrs. Rosen and Marceau discovered that each of the X-rayed wood panels had been scratched over as if by a fine-toothed saw, producing a texture like that of woven fabric. This gave a firm grip to the ground of gesso (whiting and glue...
...FINER COOKING-X. M. Boulestin -Oxford University Press ($5). Discourse by a learned London chef on the "Ninth Art," filled with literary and historical allusions and 308 recipes of everything from soups to sundries. Two volumes: one with decorations by J. E. Laboureur, for the lady of the house; the other, of recipes only, for the cook...
...cages containing white rats, labeled by splotches of blue, yellow or pink paint on their backs. These animals have been made cancerous by implantations of cancerous tissue. Preliminary experiments tend to show that neutron bombardments have a selective effect on cancer cells five times as strong as that of X-rays...