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...fortnight ago St. Louis announced that it had bought a fine portrait from Rembrandt's last and best period (TIME, Oct. 30). Last week the Cleveland Museum of Art, which had two early Rembrandts already, also bought a late one: Portrait of a Student. In 1910, Banker Otto Kahn paid more than $100,000 to get the canvas from a Leningrad collection. His heirs, who sold it for an estimated $125,000, gave the proceeds to the Metropolitan Opera Association for some new Met scenery...
...Capp's earlier years. Li'l Abner's creator, who was born Alfred Gerald Caplin in New Haven, Conn., in 1909 (he shortened his name to Capp in signing the strip, changed it legally in 1949), grew up amid a ferocious struggle with poverty. His father, Otto Caplin-a glib, cheerful, optimistic man who studied law at Yale, had a dilettante's interest in art and nursed continual schemes for making his fortune-managed to eke out only the barest living. It was largely his mother's courage and resourcefulness that kept the family...
...Manhattan, the roughhouse New York Giants, 17-13, over the powerhouse Cleveland Browns, by limiting Cleveland Passer Otto Graham...
...City Art Museum of St. Louis put a mighty fine and correspondingly expensive new acquisition on show. It was a Portrait of a Young Man by Rembrandt, bought from the collection of London's late Otto Gutekunst for $130,000. The museum is tax-supported, but private citizens had pitched in $37,500 to help close its biggest deal...
Great defensive play by New York prevented the Browns from crossing the 50-yard line throughout the entire first half. The Brown's star passer, Otto Graham, was bottled up, completing only 12 of 30 passed for 127 yards. It was the first time in their five-year history that the Browns had been shut...