Word: browing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Jessica ("Jessie") Reed, 43, five-times-married Ziegfeld showgirl and once one of the highest-paid chorines in the world; of pneumonia and anemia; as a charity patient in Chicago's Osteopathic Hospital. Same day her daughter Ann Carroll de Brow won a Texas beauty contest...
...risky. French Scholar Denis Saurat enraged the high-minded by "demonstrating" that blind John Milton (like deaf Ludwig van Beethoven) suffered from hereditary syphilis. Diagnostician Moorman finds Milton tuberculous. Other famous consumptives: Pope, Dr. Johnson, Shelley, Goethe, Schiller, Descartes, Balzac, Rousseau, Spinoza, Kant, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Chekhov, Dostoevski, a brow-wrinkling list of other writers and thinkers. Doctors suspect that tuberculosis develops genius because 1) apprehension of death inspires a burning awareness of life's beauty, significance, transience, 2) the bacillus breeds restlessness and an intoxicated hypersensitiveness...
...time when theatre managers are soothing the world's troubled brow either with raucous comedies or lavish musicals, "Boyd's Shop" blows into the Copley Theatre like a clean wind. It is a simple play about simple people with all the home-grown philosophy that is bound to blossom in Ulster. But St. John Ervine has put no haloes around his country folk; no sickening sentimentality. Instead, in the clash of old and new in rural Ireland Ervine has found the same problems which thrive in the largest city. And far from being "small townish," his characters...
With prices from a shilling (20?) to three-and-six (70?), the Philharmonic tour brought out working folk in swarms. In Manchester, the inevitable man-in-the-pub exclaimed: "It's made me find out I'm a bloody high-brow...
Pioneers in the use of high-brow art in advertising (they had already got the Dole pineapple people to hire top-flight U. S. artists to paint pineapples in Hawaii -TIME, Feb. 12), N. W. Ayer suggested that the De Beers syndicate buy paintings by famous modernists, reproduce them in color alongside their diamond ads. The De Beers syndicate obediently bought about $20,000 worth of modern art by such headliners as Picasso, Matisse, Dali, Derain, Dufy, Marie Laurencin, got ready to reproduce them, by expensive color processes, as diamond...