Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Director Brew was well aware that the Museum's magnificent collection of primitive art involved a responsibility to the art world. In connection with Perry Rathbone, director of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, he has found what may well prove to be the ideal solution. The Peabody will lend about three hundred examples of primitive art for exhibit in a gallery permanently set aside for it in the Museum of Fine Arts. The primitive works will be shown in a manner befitting any more recent work...
More material, though, is continually coming to the Museum. A ship is now carrying to Boston 38 wooden boxes of new specimens obtained by a Museum exhibition in Nicaragua. These will have to fit somewhere. The usefulness of this new Nicaragua collection, as well as some parts of the Museum's rarely used study material, is questionable. Though a Permanent Committee on Storage Space carefully weeds out many such useless items, this work requires anthropological research on a truly sweeping scale. The Museum does not have unlimited storage space, and the upkeep of a catalogue is complex and expensive enough...
Taking their inspiration from Edward Steichen's "Family of Man" and from Carl Sandburg's poetry, four attractive young people have produced a program of folk music that is different, refreshing, and exceedingly enjoyable. They sing, play guitars and banjos, pantomine, and experiment with lighting; and last Sunday's Boston audience, while small (only about 100), gave them an enthusiastic response...
...document his conclusion, Dr. Finland told the Association of American Physicians, he and two colleagues (Dr. Wilfred F. Jones Jr. and Research Technician Mildred W. Barnes) spent three years poring over the records of 10,000 patients who had severe infections at the time of death in Boston City Hospital. The researchers covered 24 years, beginning with 1935, to get data before the first sulfa changed the picture (1937). Deaths caused by bacterial infections in the bloodstream dropped steadily until 1947, they found. Since then, the rate has stayed low or dropped further for deaths caused by pneumococci...
Physicians who are overconfident of germ-killing wonder drugs are living in a fool's paradise where their patients may die. This is a favorite theme of Boston's Dr. Maxwell Finland. Most doctors have rationalized that, although the sulfas and antibiotics let some resistant microbes slip by, they save so many lives that their occasional failures stand out more. The "increase" in such cases, they argue, is only relative, not real. Last week Dr. Finland attacked this defense. In his saddest jeremiad yet, he asserted that the antimicrobial drugs have caused an actual increase in severe infections...