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BECAUSE they can immerse themselves wholeheartedly in a make-believe world, children make fine illustrators. The fact is being handsomely proved by a traveling exhibition of children's illustrations for the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, who was born in Denmark 149 years ago last week. The show, a vast one to which 45 nations contributed, is divided into sections; this week part of it was on display at the New York Public Library, another part at the Municipal Art Gallery of Davenport, Iowa. Organized by a Danish welfare group, the exhibition is being circulated throughout the free...
Wellspring of the show was the genius of Andersen himself. Born to a poor and slightly unbalanced cobbler, Andersen liked to dabble in art; he was pretty good at cutting out silhouettes, once designed a whole new set of shapes for gingerbread cookies. But Andersen's real gift was painting word pictures that appealed to children everywhere. Nearly all of the youthful illustrators who submitted entries in the current show were already familiar with Andersen's tales in their own languages...
...until 1938 that Dr. Dorothy Hansine Andersen, a perceptive pathologist working at Columbia University and Babies Hospital, put together the symptoms she had seen in sick children and the physical changes she found in their organs after death. Thus, cystic fibrosis won medical recognition. It is marked by two chief sets of symptoms. One involves the lungs, which are blocked by a heavy viscid mucus, with frequent infections like pneumonia, and wheezy breathing or persistent, hacking cough. The other set of symptoms affects the pancreas, which fails to deliver the normal quota of enzymes to the digestive system, so that...
Recessive Gene. After Dr. Andersen defined cystic fibrosis, doctors saw that previously they had been dismissing the lung symptoms as pneumonia, and confusing the intestinal upset with something else-celiac disease. Gradually, they learned that cystic fibrosis is by no means rare; by current estimates, one child in 600 is affected. It is inherited and may strike all the children in a susceptible family, or only one in ten, but the average is one in four...
...breaking the record set by Australia's John Marshall in 1950 by seven-tenths of a second. ¶ At Davos, Switzerland, Russia's Boris Shilkov became the first man from his country ever to win the European speed skating championship, edging Norway's famed Hjalmar Andersen, 198.058 points...