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...came, New York's contribution was the largest, easily the best. Reginald Marsh had one of his riotous confusions at Coney Island, this time entitled George T. Tilyou's Steeplechase Park. Sculptor Mahonri Young offered a bronze boxer. There were able nudes by Isabel Bishop and Alexander Brook and a study of a black parasol by Morris Kantor that was possibly the best still life in the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: National Show | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...same time, in three races to be held here, the Yardling fifties will meet Yale at 5 o'clock today over the Hencley course, the second Freshmen face the Dartmouth first year boat tomorrow and Kirkland battle with Say-brook College from Yale at 11 o'clock this morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Crew Winner as Yardling Nine Upsets Yale | 5/21/1937 | See Source »

...Francis Speight took the third prize for a farm woman collecting her mail. Critics found little of outstanding importance in the show, but uniformly praised the general excellence of the work. None objected to the judges' choices, found worthy of special mention other paintings by Bernard Keyes, Alexander Brook, Henry McFee, Raphael Soyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Popular Win | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

Pneumonia Treatment. By hypodermic injection of a substance called deutero-proteose. Dr. Clyde Brook of New Orleans, reduced his death rate in both lobar and bronchopneumonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Meetings | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

Josephine Johnson's first novel, Now in November, took the 1935 Pulitzer Prize on points, for sheer beauty. Last week she went at the hurdle of her second novel- which for authors is what Becher's Brook is for Grand National riders. Interested bystanders shook their heads over a near-cropper, gave odds that she would not finish in the money, and those who attach more value to performance than style said Author Johnson's Pegasus got his feet all mixed up in metaphors, looked better in a show ring than he did over a fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prizewinner's Second | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

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