Word: developers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teetotalers are much more interested than drinkers in church, foreign missions, music, observatories, wild-flower picking. Their attitude toward drinkers is not devoid of envy: 59% of those examined wished that scientists would develop a beverage "retaining all the good features of alcohol but lacking all its harmful features...
Died. George Brant Bridgman, 79, U.S. art's top-ranking teacher of anatomy, for 44 years a lecturer at Manhattan's Art Students League; after long illness; in New Rochelle, N.Y. Small, bald, Canadian-born Bridgman studied under Gerome and Boulanger in Paris, developed in his famed Constructive Anatomy (100,000 copies since 1920) the analogy between the human figure and geometrical forms. He proposed to teach students how to draw the human figure accurately, let them develop their own esthetic approach to the subject. He had 80,000 students, including Cartoonists Percy Crosby and Otto Soglow, Illustrators...
Italian soldiers who had joined the Allies moved into positions in the Mignano area. They were veterans who had served in France, Russia, Africa, but they had had little chance to develop teamwork. They piled out of busses marked Roma O Morte (Rome or Death), went into the line noisily, clumsily, gave the enemy 36 hours' notice that an attack was brewing...
...Lions and Dogs. Enlargement of the prostate gland occurs in most men over 50 and about half of them have some prostate trouble. An estimated 17 to 20% of men past 50 develop prostatic cancer. This also happens to dogs and lions. The dangerous gland, situated at the lower part of the bladder next to the exit, rarely gives much warning (common first symptom: difficulty in urinating) until the cancer is beyond surgery...
...that keeps them from showing more British pictures is that there are not enough worth showing. Up to now, the cock-of-the-walk U.S. industry has had no reason to be cartel-minded, because it has had no really formidable international competition. But as Morris Ernst puts it: "Develop a giant to deal with a giant." If & when he can produce the pictures, J. Arthur Rank looks like a likely giant...