Word: americans
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Although the African artists stuck close to home for their subject matter, they had traveled far afield for their techniques. Like many a contemporary European and American painter, most of them had obviously been influenced by the Impressionists, by the simplified landscapes of Gauguin, and by such far-off painters as Winslow Homer. Among the more outstanding exhibitors were amateur Archeologist-Teacher Walter Battiss, whose paintings of grazing animals and intrepid hunters were deliberately patterned on prehistoric Bushman drawings, and ex-Medical Corpsman Alexis Preller, who combined something of the lurid colors and slick forms of the Mexican muralists with...
Hearst's Chicago Herold-American made the most of this opportunity to catch the "torturers" redhanded. Its headlines: FLAUNT PET TORTURE AT DOG SHOW! VISITORS SICKEN AT CRUEL SIGHT. A picture of a dog named Fluffy, which had a tube connecting its stomach to a pouch collecting gastric juices, was captioned: "In helpless torment, deprived of even the relief of barking a protest, Fluffy can only gasp in grip of [the University of Chicago's] Dr. N. R. Brewer." Another picture on the same page showed a dog on which a prostate operation had been performed. The Hearst...
This was more than the research society could stand. In the name of Dr. Brewer, the "tormentor" of the caption, the society's lawyer filed a $1,000,000 libel suit against Publisher Hearst and the Herald-American, brought suits in Chicago's Federal District Court on behalf of two other members. This week the society announced that two more suits would be filed, boosting the grand total in damages sought to $2,900,000. If they collect, the plaintiffs said they would use the money to make a movie depicting the medical advances achieved through vivisection. Said...
Digging out an eleven-year-old copy of the Saturday Review of Literature, the syndicate found that Canby had indeed lauded the "homely genius" of Peg's style, had even called him "that most hard-hitting and expressive of contemporary American journalists," and had gone on to quote two paragraphs from a Pegler column. The syndicate promptly slapped Canby's encomium into its ad. Just as promptly, Canby objected: "This [article] has been quoted without my permission and without the permission of the Saturday Review, where it is copyrighted...
Lutherans took issue with the cardinal on a matter of fundamental principle: the separation of church and state, "a cherished ideal of all American Lutherans since they first arrived on American soil 300 years ago." Lutherans did not seek federal aid to education, declared Dr. John W. Behnken, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the most conservative of the large Lutheran groups.* Even if the Government should offer help to private schools, Dr. Behnken said, "there must be a clear understanding that no Government assistance can be given to support the instructional program of church schools. If there...