Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Years ago plump, round-faced Josephine Hancock Logan and her husband set up annual awards for Chicago's famed Art Institute. Grieved by the "modernist" paintings which walked away with the prizes, Mrs. Logan four years ago declared war on her own awards, founded the Society for Sanity in Art, Inc. Last week, at Chicago's Stevens Hotel, the Society came of age with its first national exhibition. Mrs. Logan turned up early, dressed in pink lace, pink gloves, diamond and emerald bracelets, a hat of feathers and flowers. While an eight-piece orchestra played her favorite tunes...
...Hutchins has two sons. Son Robert Maynard became president of University of Chicago at 30. Son Francis Stevenson became head of Yale-in-China...
Professor Ralph Winfred Tyler, University of Chicago's famed chief examiner and professor of education, believes that U. S. high schools and colleges do not teach students to think. Because pedagogues lack even the means of finding out whether students can think, Professor Tyler and colleagues spent three months thinking up a test of thinking. Last month, having excogitated 290 questions and created perhaps the most elaborate thinking test ever devised, they stunned a group of the nation's smartest high-school graduates with it. The examinees were 1,407 high-standing students, trying for 34 University...
Highest score was made by Chicago's Donald Wallace Connor, who got 211 of the 290 questions. Said a less successful examinee: "Anyone who could pass that test doesn't need to go to college...
Cinemactor Power's third appearance with Alice Faye (others: In Old Chicago, Alexander's Ragtime Band) is his first picture released since his marriage...