Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a few days before Adolf Hitler, Thomas Hart Benton celebrated his 50th birthday with a big party in Kansas City, Mo. (see p. 18) and next day caught a train for Manhattan. The celebration there was even bigger-an over-all exhibition of his paintings from 1908 to 1939. His first one-man Manhattan show in seven years, it was installed in a blaze of light at the opening of a new Fifth Avenue gallery by Associated American Artists (TIME...
...Benton show proved that it has done Tom Benton good to go to art school, even though it took his present teaching job at the Kansas City Art Institute to make him stay in one. Such simple little paintings as Rainy Day (see cut), done last year, impressed critics as new and less superficial renderings of what Benton has in his head. Most surprising, however, were a number of beautifully constructed still lifes with real depth and richness of texture. Said Tom Benton: "What there is in me to do I now know that...
...loss of blood and who need to maintain a normal amount of fluid in circulation. It must be sterilized, filtered and typed, just like ordinary blood. Transfusions have been given to nine patients suffering from such diverse ailments as kidney infections, alcoholism, malaria, cancer and gunshot wounds. One man even acted as his own dropsy donor, when Dr. Davis removed 34 ounces of fluid from his stomach, promptly pumped them back into...
...delivered just right, Elektro may apparently disobey. In Pittsburgh last week the robot made nice publicity for himself by disobeying his master. His designer, Engineer J. M. Barnett, practicing signals for reporters, ordered him to raise one arm. Instead he started walking backward, kept on walking backward even when commanded to stop by the engineer, who grew a little excited-and still less careful of his phrasing. Elektro might have backed through a wall had not Robotmaster Barnett shut off his supply of electric power...
...were shocked by this fiction but Stokley defended it as a product of imagination "guided by a knowledge of exact facts." This month Fels visitors were treated to an imaginary trip to the present harmless moon-takeoff in a rocket ship, sound effects, landing in a lunar crater-were even given "tickets" for the voyage...