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...Rousseau windows, which he had already tried out in Hollywood, Saks's perky window designer James David Buckley chose six typical lush, salad-like Rousseau paintings, reproduced them in life-sized scenes with the help of rag-doll manikins, props of paper, cloth and wood. Window Dresser Buckley made each window represent a phase in the life of a woman. Rousseau's Portrait of a Young Girl, bloatedly enlarged, became "Her Awkward Age"; his Sleeping Gypsy, complete with mandolin and prowling lion, "Her Bohemian Period." Unlike previous art-conscious window displays, Buckley's contained no merchandise. Sole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art for Window-shoppers | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...Boston City Hospital, Dr. Charles C. Lund has been investigating the relation of vitamins to the healing of surgical wounds, which may have some bearing on the cancer problem. Dr. Fletcher Colby and Dr. Richard Dresser are continuing their observations on the treatment of cancer of the bladder by the million volt x-ray machine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 5/1/1940 | See Source »

...when he heard a male pianist at the French Opera House. Until then he had assumed that the piano was a woman's instrument. He took some lessons at a Catholic school, but considers his real mentor an eight-fingered virtuoso named Mamie Desdume, "good-natured, a fine dresser, and extremely popular with the sporting crowd." Mamie played the first blues Jelly ever heard, and she is gratefully recalled in the album by Mamie's Blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jelly | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...doctor with my fist," the boxer confessed. The secretary's persistency enraged him. "I reached for something that was on the table or the dresser... I don't know what it was ... I lost my head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Killer Kehler | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...explained to the satisfaction of the Brooklyn district attorney's office were these facts: Engelberg appeared to have been asleep when he was attacked, and by the horrible look of his face, the "something on the dresser" which Haas-Kehler said he grasped must have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Killer Kehler | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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