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...they were not; oil as a binder for pigment instead of white of egg was used tentatively long before they were born. But they were major masters of the Flemish school, they popularized oil painting throughout the world and-what endears them most to dealers and collectors-they left precious few pictures behind them. Fewer than 20 genuine van Eycks are known to exist. Beside the Metropolitan's diptych only two others are in the U. S.: "The Vision of St. Francis" in the John Graver Johnson Collection in Philadelphia; the "Annunciation," purchased from the Soviet Government four years...
...creative." Commander Hartley (Blaine Cordner), an affable, scout-masterish publicity hound, is in such a glow over U. S. annexation of Antarctica that he is not aware his men call him a tinplate hero behind his back, or that his pompous planting of flags and food caches has consumed precious time which might prevent the relief ship from getting through the fast-knitting ice. When radio messages from the ship abruptly cease, he takes to futile bawling and sulking in his private cubbyhole. His shillyshallying in the face of a near mutiny results in the loss of an aviator...
...remunerative* work for publishers, advertising agencies and type founders, the Goudys still do with their own hands all the work of the original Village Press. Bertha Goudy has a collection of 29 lively tropical birds. Chief of the aviary is a parrot whose printable vocabulary is limited to "Tombo-precious...
...alley tough who could make a dishonest living if he could ever bring himself to run away from the police. After he has gone to jail for putting two good cops in the hospital, his mistress Aggie, with a celerity only possible in the cinema, meets bis opposite, a precious, rich, bespectacled country boy (Charles Farrell). By throwing away his spectacles, telling him to talk out of the corner of his mouth, giving him the Irish name of her jailed lover, she turns the country poltroon into a man-eater and a construction gang boss, then falls in love with...
...Conant the House. Show him our walls, without any portraits. Show him the fireplace in our dining hall, without anything with which to build a fire. Show him how well you can hear through the thin partitions in our rooms. But treat him carefully, for he is very precious. And return him to the Master's lodgings within the hour...