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Died. Dr. Karl Landsteiner, 75, world-famed discoverer of the four human blood types, 1930 Nobel Prize winner; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Shy, grey-mustached Landsteiner got his M.D. in his native Vienna in 1891, was stricken in the laboratory of the Rockefeller Institute in which he worked for 20 years...
...destiny." Said Taylor, "Who doesn't?") They include an interview with Sir Robert Alexander Watson Watt, developer of radar. "Forget the impossible," Watt said. "Few things are impossible." They include a vivid picture of Woodrow Wilson shortly before his death, when young Henry and his father visited the stricken ex-President. "He was not feeble. Often his right arm struck the air in a weird and menacing gesture, then struck again and again as though he would be done with his enemies forever. . . . I want some scalps,' he said to Father time after time, 'and when...
...stop bombing, which is repugnant to his gentle soul. We remember, of course, how his humanity was stirred when Germany and Italy bombed Guernica and other Spanish cities. ... It is kind of General Franco to spare time from his preoccupation as a ruler of the most backward, derelict, poverty-stricken, starving, illiterate, reactionary country in Europe to tell us how to manage our affairs. This great Christian would not of course tell a lie.. . . As he is the head of a state, he is entitled to courtesy. Instead, therefore, of replying to him in a sailor's phrase...
...come to that elegant, if conscience-stricken, practitioner of letters, Vincent Sheean, in TIME, May 3. . . . Certainly no one alive does the "Says I to Churchill, and says Winnie to me" stuff any better. As to the swimming pool you so thoughtfully reproduce. . . . If he believes that nudity is a prerogative of the idle rich, I would urge his attendance at the mass rites at Coney Island any summer Sunday. But Mr. Sheean, lush hedonist, has his inevitable moment of compunction when he changes to his near-Marxist line, like the man who doesn't kiss, but tells. Perhaps...
...figures carved in the round) and retablos (painted panels) of the Saints and Holy Family were vaguely reminiscent of medieval European art, utterly unlike anything else the U.S. has produced. They were done between 1725 and 1875 by humble priests and lay members of tiny churches in the poverty-stricken regions of Southern Colorado and New Mexico...