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...Century of Progress exhibit of the Chicago Roentgen Ray Society, Dr. Hollis Elmer Potter, Chicago x-ray specialist, last week hung the first full-length, full-size, one-piece x-ray photograph of the complete human body ever put on display (see cut). X-ray technicians heretofore have made composite pictures of the whole body. The Chicago exhibit was the result of a single, one-second exposure to x-rays...
...18th Century English school of painting which always commands good auction prices was this year's unquestioned leader. Top artist was Raeburn with John Lamont of Lamont which went from one anonymous collector to another for $29,000. Others of the school: a small full-length Gainsborough from Mrs. Reid's collection, $5.100; a Lawrence from the late Henry Seligman's collection, $19,000; a Hoppner, $12.500; Isabella, Lady Molyneux by Gainsborough, $10,000; a Romney, $16,000. Millet's The Knitting Lesson, once owned by the late Levi Zeigler Leiter, was sold to Manhattan...
...Forster-Harcourt, Brace ($3). Full-length biography of a great scholar-humanist, by the author of A Passage to India...
...James Warburg was one of the young advisers who went down with the U. S. delegation. Back in Washington Adviser Warburg spent a futile hour trying to make the President see the error of his ways. After that Mr. Warburg ceased being an adviser. The Money Muddle is his full-length attack on the financial abracadabra of the New Deal. "In the hope that he would have liked this book" it is dedicated to his father, the late great Paul Moritz Warburg of Federal Reserve System fame. It represents a not too conservative banker's criticism of the Roosevelt...
THANK YOU, JEEVES! - P. G. Wodehouse - Little, Brown ($2). Funnyman Wodehouse finally rewards a faithful servant by making him the hero of a full-length novel...