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From Makeshift to McGusty. The Suva Medical School began back in the 1880s with verbal instruction (no textbooks, no laboratories) by the British Medical Officer at Fiji. For the first 40 years it was only a makeshift. In 1928, bulky, energetic Dr. Sylvester Maxwell Lambert, who spent 20 years in the South Pacific for the Rockefeller Foundation, persuaded the Foundation to help. In 1929, the Suva School dedicated a new dormitory and mess hall. Enrollment was increased from 16 to 40, extended to include non-Fijians. In the 1930s, pathological and bacteriological laboratories were added. In 1940 a European nurse...
...Artist. Posada was born in 1852, of peasant stock, in Aguascalientes, Mexican provincial capital. Largely self-taught, he went to work in Mexico City in the late 1880s. Porfirio Diaz was ruling Mexico then as a dictator. The San Carlos Academy of Art, near Posada's workshop, was teaching a decadent, imported style to young artists. Posada ignored the Academy, attacked the Diaz regime with vitriolic cartoons. Among his admirers were today's top-ranking Mexican artists, José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera, young students of the time whose work was strongly influenced by his. (Orozco: "Posada...
Tuxedo. A tailless dinner coat, first worn by a daring young man (Griswold Lorillard) at a formal ball at fashionable Tuxedo Park, N.Y., in the 1880s...
...rays of a huge grapefruit-yellow sun, a topographical panorama showed visitors what a beautiful place Los Angeles County had been before the Angelence had got there. Other panoramas depicted the idyllic cattle and sheep ranches of a century and more ago, the land and oil booms of the 1880s and '90s, the leaning fences and signboards of the 19205. The 1941 display pictured children playing in congested streets, oil wells blossoming on front lawns. A weatherbeaten shack, transplanted whole from a Los Angeles slum, stood accusingly before a backdrop of Los Angeles' skyscraping city hall...
...beefy, full-bellied, roundheaded Philadelphian, Lawyer Johnson once earned a $50,000 fee for scrawling the word "No" across the front of a bulky, corporate financing plan. He became absorbed in art collecting back in the 1880s. Leaving the more expensive masterpieces to his friend, the late Multimillionaire Peter A. B. Widener, Johnson concentrated on completeness and comprehensiveness. In a massive, Edwardian mansion on South Broad Street, Collector Johnson plastered walls from floor to ceiling with gilt-framed masterpieces. Finally strapped for space, he had to hang his canvases in bathrooms and inside closet doors. He even hung some...