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...Department's foolish shipments caused great annoyance to the S. 0. S. When extra long piles were needed for piers, they were sent over?sawed in pieces to fit between a ship's bulkheads. General Pershing had to order a halt on such nonessentials as "bath bricks, bath tubs, bookcases, cuspidors, floor wax, stepladders, lawn mowers, sickles, stools and window shades." Winter clothing for troops did not arrive until long after the first snows...
Critics moving diffidently among the silk hats of the gentry approved Augustus John's state portrait of white-chinned Viscount d'Abernon (Argentine Trade Mission, TIME, Sept. 23, 1929) in the red robes of the Bath, Sir John Lavery's state portrait of mutton-chop-whiskered Lord Lonsdale in the blue robes of the Garter, the ever popular sporting pictures of A. J. Munnings. World wide depression, they noted, had a marked effect in reducing the number of large statues on view...
Contrary to most exhibitions of the work of Degas, emphasis has been laid not on his studies of the ballet and of the race-track, but upon his endeavors in the line of portraiture. Another feature of the show is a large unfinished canvas, "Woman at the Bath", which has been lent by an anonymous collector, and is on exhibition for the first time...
Among the other items to be exhibited are both the drawing and the finished pastel of the "Portrait of a Woman"; his well-known painting, "The Laundresses", and a very early portrait. "An Old Italian Beggar Woman." A large, unfinished canvas, another "Woman at the Bath," will be placed on exhibition for the first time...
...hypothesis (now that it is offered it can be tested in many ways) lay in his primacy among brain surgeons and medical scholars. A dozen institutions have loaded him with honorary degrees in arts, medicine, science, law and literature. He is a Distinguished Service Medalist, a Companion of the Bath, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Medicine has given him a "homage book," like the one it recently gave Professor James Ewing (TIME, Jan. 12). Not his least valued kudos is the Montclair Yale Bowl given each year by Yale alumni living in Montclair, N. J. to one distinguished...