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Another great portrait of the 15th Century mercenary (scowling as usual, in a velvet cap and gold brocaded tunic) was the highlight of a loan exhibition of Renaissance portraits at the Knoedler Galleries. By Giovanni Bellini, it is the property of Lord Duveen of Millbank. There were plenty of other masterpieces to remind the public of the treasury of Old Masters still in private hands in Manhattan. Among them: Castagno's Portrait of a Young Man, lent by J. P. Morgan; another young man, by Botticelli, lent by Clarence Hungerford Mackay; Fouquet's John, Bastard of Orleans, lent...
...Louis, Louis Nova of San Francisco, won the amateur heavyweight championship for 1935 by thrashing Joe Malinsky of Cleveland. Successor to Joe Louis, as light-heavyweight champion, was a Cleveland welder named Joe Bauer. Of the eight title-winners, four-Dave Clark (160 lb.), Al Netlow (126 lb.), Troy Bellini (118 lb.) and Bauer-were members of Chicago's Golden Gloves team (TIME, April...
...record took a frightful toll. She had pinned her hopes on a Macchi seaplane with a 2,800-h. p. Fiat motor driving two propellers. One after another these machines dove into Lake Garda, carrying to death in turn the crack pilots of the high speed school-Monti, Bellini, Dal Molin. Neri-until last month when Agello triumphed. British airmen maintain that the Macchi's phenomenal speed is due to a reduced wing span which makes its landing speed more than two miles a minute, a lower safety factor than is permitted in Great Britain. The S. B.-Rolls...
...Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. Last week a Thompson went back to 118 one-armed lunchrooms, but the process was some-what different. In 1927 John R. Thompson, self-made founder of the restaurant chain died leaving to his estate a lot of old masters (Hals, Raeburn, Corot, Diaz, Millet, Rousseau, Bellini) that had cost him some $750,000. To his company he left his Yale-educated Son (Class of 1918). John R. Jr. had been put through the business from the lunch counter up. Homely and negligent in dress, he was regarded by his father's good friends...
...Giovanni Bellini," Professor McCombe, Fogg Small Room...