Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Art Institute's large and brilliant International Watercolor show,* visitors congregated around Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's When Fall Winds Blow, a portrait of two junky old houses. Reason: Submitted last year under the title Second Stories Are Popular, it was rejected because of a pink nude in one window. Artist Albright had now partly covered the girl with a shutter, painted not on the canvas but on the glass in front...
...Otherwise notable because Chicago Tribune Critic Eleanor Jewett, panner of previous shows for "modernism" (TIME, May 16), praised this one for the same...
These opinions appear in the preface of a book entitled Doctor, Here's Your Hat (published last January*), by Dr. Joseph Ambrose Jerger of Chicago. On account of them ruddy, lusty, leonine Dr. Jerger was in trouble last week with the American Medical Association-which itself is in trouble with the Department of Justice on anti-trust charges...
...almost died of enteric fever, met Mark Twain on a boat going to England. Mark Twain medicated the convalescent with Tom & Jerries (rum, hot water, cinnamon, eggs), persuaded him to go to the U. S. Jerger did so, got through his medical schooling and internship in Chicago, settled in Waterloo, Ia. Eventually he returned to Chicago and built up a fine surgical practice; but he never forgot that he was a family doctor...
Some weeks ago Dr. Jerger was haled before a Chicago Medical Society committee on charges that his book and magazine writings violated A. M. A. rules against "self-aggrandizement and solicitation of patients." Later, he claims that he and his patients were barred from all Chicago hospitals...