Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Overlooked was the fact that, on arriving in Chicago, Dr. Townsend had told newshawks that his organization had taken m $1,200,000 to date. Publicity Director Boyd Gurley, one-man brain trust of the Townsend outfit, smoothed things over by declaring that the movement had grown so fast its directors really did not know where they stood. Onetime editor of the Kansas City Post and managing editor of the Indianapolis Times, for which he won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize "for the most disinterested and meritorious public service." Braintruster Gurley writes most of the Townsend Weekly, bats out inspirational speeches...
Last week, as Captain Marinetti embarked for Ethiopia with his two World War medals aglitter on his chest, his futurist brain was busy in the service of Fascism with "ideas for army headgear of celluloid and air-cooled aluminum to mitigate the Ethiopian desert...
Awarded. To Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, 63, famed medical researcher (blood, brain, lymphatic system, tuberculosis), first woman member of the Rockefeller Institute, first woman member of the National Academy of Sciences: Bryn Mawr's M. Carey Thomas prize of $5,000, "given at intervals to an American woman in recognition of eminent achievement...
...Arnold L. Haskell tells the life story of Diaghilev, the man who brought Russian ballet to its highest peak.* Author Haskell's volume is in part an answer to the best-seller by Romola Nijinsky who insinuated repeatedly that Diaghilev was the cause of her husband's brain-collapse. Author Haskell admits Diaghilev's abnormalities but he maintains that Nijinsky was never well-balanced, that there was something strange about his sudden marriage to a girl with whom he had scarcely spoken. After his break with Diaghilev, Nijinsky suffered much. He was detained in Austria...
...superior child grows fitfully. During the first two years he grows chiefly in length. The next four years he broadens out. He shoots up again during puberty (12 to 14 years), broadens again during adolescence. His body ripens unequally during those years. At 6, a person's brain is as big as it ever will...