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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since primitive medicine men cast out devils with incantations and dances, music and medicine have kept up a nodding acquaintance. Asclepius, Greek god of healing, used three methods to treat the ill: drugs, surgery and "soft music." Ancient Greek Theophrastus used music to cure snakebite; Ancient Greek Pythagoras used it to treat insanity. The savage breast of many a high-strung potentate, from Saul to Hitler, has been soothed by music's charms...
...bombed, shelled and ruined Taierchwang in which not a house was left standing according to white eyewitnesses, chased Japanese 20 miles to Yihsien, where the Mikado's routed forces finally made a stand. Chinese artillery was moved up into the surrounding hills, shelled Yihsien fiercely until half this ancient city was in flames...
Iran the New. By this spring thickly-populated bazaar districts were condemned and destroyed, new, broad, straight avenues plotted through once narrow, crooked streets. Magnificent, many-roomed, multistoried government buildings stood where once sagged ancient one-story huts. A handsome post-office building covering a city block has arisen and a Ministry of War Building, with sufficient space to house the general staffs of Germany, France and Great Britain at the same time, is being utilized by the ever-expanding but still relatively small Iranian staff...
Fiercest back -& -forth fighting took place at Taierhchwang, 45 miles northeast of Suchow. Time & again the town changed hands and before long the ancient walls and mud huts were leveled. At last reports the Japanese had occupied the city, entered Kiangsu Province...
...students' free designs at the expense of buildings actually erected, cities actually built under varying conditions in the U. S. S. R. Roughhewn, meditative Architect Gropius, a continual smoker of 5? miniature cigars, has made himself popular at Harvard by teaching a practical esthetic. Resenting architectural "styles" whether ancient or modern, he has established a new basis for instruction on Bauhaus principles: a thorough knowledge of building materials, training in three-dimensional rather than "paper" thinking, actual work under a contractor...