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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like most children, little Dahlov Zorach scribbled pictures when she was three years old. Unlike most children, she was a sculptor's daughter. Fond Father William Zorach began saving all her work he could lay his hands on, kept on saving it. Result: A unique exhibition last week (at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dahlov | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Neither her parents nor the art instructors at her progressive schools ever tried to teach Dahlov. She went her own gait, shifting happily about from crayons to lithographs, wood carving to ceramics, water colors to oils. No prodigy, she had the varying interests of a normal, healthy child; through them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dahlov | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Last week Biochemist Paul Leland Kirk of the University of California and a graduate student, Clifton Bennett, announced a sure, swift, new syphilis test. A sore trial for pathologists, the speedy test, invented in 1935 by Dr. George Franklin Laughlen of Toronto, Ont., was fussed over for four years before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Syphilis Signal | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Two or three drops of blood are taken from a finger or an ear lobe and centrifuged to remove all red blood cells. Then the clear serum is mixed with several drops of the antigen, a witches' brew of benzoin (a resin from Java or Sumatra), cholesterol (alcohol which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Syphilis Signal | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Dr. Kirk hopes that the test will soon be adopted by the health departments of 19 States which are bound by law to test all applicants for marriage licenses. Much cheaper than a Wassermann test (which takes a day), although requiring just as skilled attention, a Laughlen test should cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Syphilis Signal | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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