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...Body Is Found. The Fabric of the Human Body is best seen today in a magnificent reprint made in Munich (Bremer Presse) in 1934, sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine. This enormous folio (height 22 in., weight 20 lb., price $95 a copy) was made possible by the discovery in Munich in 1932 of almost all the original Calcar-attributed woodblocks. More than 200 turned up, in perfect condition. Bremer Presse craftsmen made restrikes of the blocks, on dampened rag paper, with such exquisite care that the results are far more legible than in the first great 16th...
...Luce took a bold slap at President Roosevelt. Said she: "Until 1937, Franklin Roosevelt was the world's outstanding isolationist. For years he was famed for his blithe indifference to the oneness of the world in every chancellery in Europe and Asia. His public approval, for example, of Munich is a matter of public record...
...after Munich the evil tidings out of Europe and Asia began to swamp the State Department. . . . Slowly, reluctantly, hesitantly, Franklin Roosevelt abandoned his isolation...
...years before Munich Sir Walter Citrine, beaver-eyed, baby-faced boss of the British trade unions, was called a Red-hater. He visited the Soviet Union in 1935, wrote a chilly book called I Search for Truth in Russia. Late in 1941, when the Germans were pressing against the western suburbs and the U.S. was not yet in the war, Sir Walter went again to Moscow. He went with a smile, but his hosts remembered and they were chilly. Back in London, he found the faces of the resisting Russians unforgettable. He wrote of the heroic Red Army, the magnificent...
Soaring Eaglet. Before Munich, comparatively few people in the U.S. had heard of Kaltenborn or knew that he had been on the air for 16 years. He got into punditry by virtue of his associate editorship on the Brooklyn Eagle, a penchant for public speaking, and a well-traveled curiosity about foreign nations...