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When one Hans van Meegeren, a little-known Dutch Nazi painter, owned to forging seven recently "discovered" Vermeers (TIME, July 30), art experts laughed him off as a nut. They had reason to: the masterpieces had been painstakingly authenticated by them, by chemical, X-ray and infra-red tests...
...Infra-red photography, which will pierce a layer of pigment, showed a different inscription underneath: "vjtorjs carpattjj venettj opus (Work of Vittore Carpaccio of Venice)." Using solvents which would not harm the original painting surface, a technician removed the varnishes. The forged signature came off too, but Carpaccio's remained almost illegible. The reason: Carpaccio had apparently painted it out himself...
...Tested infra-red flash tonight in the hope that somehow I could cover the night attack, but even the flash's dimness could cost lives and I can endanger no one. So instead I am going to try to shoot by the light of flares, and they will be enemy flares, but I have to try for this terror in the darkness. People somehow must realize what it means...
Unlike her male contemporaries, Harriette uses subtlety, tries to mention her merchandise by name as rarely as possible. To revive Confessin', she provided min eral water for one bandleader's ulcers, an infra-red lamp for another's arthritis. For Mrs. Tommy Dorsey she managed to find $210 worth of silk stockings. Harriette has a reasonable explanation for the fact that most wives do not object to her overt cultivation of their bandleader husbands. She says: "I am the only virgin in the music business. . . . I go out with the fellows, drink with them...
...printing will be done by offset lithography on two high-speed, roll-fed presses which will dry the printing ink instantaneously by speeding the web of paper through infra-red rays. Incidentally, the magazine use of this equipment is such a new development that in a day when no new presses can be built we could not have started this venture if we had not located our second press 2,000 miles away in Detroit-and if our printers had not obtained WPB permission to move the press and other equipment to the Coast by pointing out all the transcontinental...