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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's art students, from discontented debutantes to determined G.I.s, only a handful will ever make the grade. But the future of U.S. art rests with that handful. Last week the Addison Gallery at Andover, Mass. staged a sneak preview of what some of the more promising students are up to. Gallery Director Bartlett Hayes Jr. had arranged a similar cross-section show last year (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948); this year he invited 25 schools not represented in the first exhibition to submit their prize work. The entries covered the U.S. from Oregon to Alabama, included a smattering...
...overall gain in U.S. church membership last year was 2,190,164, or 2.8% -more than equaling the estimated 1.7% population gain. This represents a total of 79,576,352 members, or 53.3% of the total population, the largest proportion of U.S. citizens ever yet recorded as church members. In the good old days of the old-time religion, the unchurched were far more numerous: in 1880 only 19.9% of the population were official church members; by 1900 the figure was 34.7%, and by 1920 it had risen only...
...takes no nonsense from a piano. He sits erect before the instrument and in full command of it. His wrists are rigid and his bony fingers strong and sure...Not only does he play such numbers [as the Paderewski Minuet in G] completely and correctly, seldom if ever missing or muffing a note, but he evidences keen insight into the composer's intent by subtle shadings of interpretation...[When] he tackled a bit of Chopin...I was downright floored. I knew he played well-but not that well...
...extremely difficult matter." Its chemical structure is similar to the 17th intermediary product in the current process, he admitted, but that similarity by no means assures that the end-product after further processing will be identical. So far no sarmentogenin, the product of the African plant, has ever been fully processed into cortisone...
...Navy lieutenant), Barton went at it again on his own. Off the California coast, 35 miles southwest of Santa Barbara, he went down alone in his Benthoscope.* and broke the Beebe-Barton record with a descent to 4,500 feet, the deepest that any living man has ever gone under...