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...Chicago's Art Institute. Last week, as usual, Chicago's 59th annual blew up in a storm of local outrage. Reason: of the 24 cash awards (picked from 2,027 works submitted), 18 went to relative unknowns, e.g., the top painting award ($1,500) was won by Canadian-born Anna P. Baker, 27 and two years out of art school, for a hectic, minutely squiggled abstractionist canvas titled High Frequency Ping. Almost every big-name Chicago artist finished out of the prize money...
David Crane's creator is Canadian-born Artist Winslow Mortimer, 36, who lives in Carmel, N.Y., collects guns, goes to Drew Methodist Church. He is aided by Hartzell Spence, son of a Methodist minister, who wrote One Foot in Heaven, and who serves as idea man and general consultant for the strip. Between them the two have a problem as old as literature -how to make the good as interesting...
Because he has a $1 billion bakery empire that stretches from Britain to Australia, Canadian-born Willard Garfield Weston is known as the "Barnum of Bread" (TIME, Feb. 14). Last week the Barnum of Bread rose some more. In a $32 million stock deal, Weston got control of Chicago's National Tea Co., fifth biggest U.S. market chain, with 1954 sales of $520 million. He did so by purchasing 544,000 shares (27%) of National Tea stock from Director John...
Died. Frederick William Nichol, 63, Canadian-born vice president and general manager (1935-49) of International Business Machines Corp., special administrative adviser (1944) to Secretaries of State Cordell Hull and Edward Stettinius; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Bedside & Laboratories. Page began his work in 1937 at the Lilly Laboratory for Clinical Research at Indianapolis City Hospital, after three years at Munich's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and six years at the Rockefeller Institute. With Canadian-born Dr. Arthur Curtis Corcoran, who has been teamed with him since 1936, Page made important discoveries on the workings of renin,* an enzyme secreted by the kidney when it is starved of blood. An injection of renin raises the blood pressure. It also alters the fat-protein combinations in the blood in such a way as to encourage atherosclerosis...