Word: exhibition
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...Much Sodium. The A.M.A.'s gold medal for the most original exhibit went to a pair of young Tulane doctors who had broken out a new track of investigation. Drs. George E. Burch (see below) and Paul Reasor wanted to find out why people with congestive heart failure have so much trouble getting rid of water, and thus show such symptoms as massively swollen legs. They suspected that sodium, an extremely "thirsty" element, had something to do with it. So they fed patients salt containing radioactive sodium, and followed the sodium's course. Sure enough, they discovered that...
Presenting "the artistic situation in sculpture," 15 graduate students of the Seminar in Museum Problems yesterday opened an exhibit of 25 twentieth century sculptors in the Fogg Museum...
...showing includes almost all schools of sculpture in vogue from the turn of the century to the present day. A mobile by Calder, a portrait of George Bernard Shaw by Jacob Epstein, and a humorous abstraction by Hans Arp are some of the pieces in the exhibit which will remain in the Museum until June...
...years ago, prospering Watercolorist Dehn had a yen to go back to his crayons and litho stone. Last week the 60 lithographs he had finished in his spare moments were on exhibit at a Manhattan gallery. A good many of them were in his old vein: New Yorkerish jibes at solemn nuns, nightclubbers & dilettantes. But most gallerygoers preferred his Minnesota farmyards and Colorado mountain landscapes. In them, Dehn proved once again that he knows how to give black the coolness and weight of real shadows, and how to make white blaze and sparkle the way light does...
Then the National Association of Women Artists, which had given her the prize, got ready to exhibit The Lovers in Manhattan's stuffy National Academy of Design. But after an Academy member huffed that it was "not a good moral influence," the 150-lb. Lovers was quietly removed from the show last week. Cried Mitzi: "A vulgar reason!" She had tried, she said, merely to convey the idea of a man and woman holding hands...