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...LOON'S GEOGRAPHY?Hendrik Willem Van Loon?Simon & Schuster...
Geography, physical and political, has never been made a very exciting subject in school. Smart Hendrik Willem Van Loon makes it exciting by taking it out of school and glorifying it. He is well-advised in having as publishers smart Simon & Schuster, high-pressure popularizers. Written in Van Loon's familiar, not to say impertinent style, as if he were talking to children but hoped to be overheard by grownups, the 525 pages are thickly plummed with sketches and maps, many of them in bright colors. The book's jacket conceals a gaily inaccurate map of the world, "suitable...
Flexible Resin. Since Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland invented Bakelite from carbolic acid & formaldehyde and demonstrated how useful and profitable such artificial resins may be, a new division of plastics has developed in chemistry. New product is "glyptal," a flexible material which /. G. E. Wright declared is better than rubber or leather for printing machine rollers. It can be used for lithographic rolls and blankets, oil-proof gaskets, floor coverings, special sheetings for the balloonets of dirigibles, gasoline and oil hose, motor-mountings, tooth brushes...
...perform rhythmic rites in dark theatres on Sunday nights. Now he covers large canvases with intricate designs, all highly symbolical. Before he turned to painting racial types of India Mr. Stowitts attracted considerable attention in the Parisian press by posturing at private parties completely nude and painted blue. Historian Hendrik Willem van Loon's son Willem Gerard van Loon reversed the process by starting as a painter, ending as a dancer (TIME, July...
...last issues, I have forgotten which, as I find them lying around my mother's apartment here, a week or more old, and read the wisecracks without looking at the dates. you copied an article in the division called People, from the Herald Tribune to the effect that Hendrik van Loon, Hendrik Willem van Loon to be exact, had arrived in America and groaned at the prospect of his son's becoming an interpretative dancer (TIME, July 20). And that son you called Hendrik Willem van Loon Jr. That's all very well except for two mistakes...