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...visit Leize Rose in her studio and see her Photo Fabric and Murals and perhaps some etchings. World's Fair site, Art Institute of Light, Housing projects, this and more is on the card for the morning...
From his travels about the country and his contacts with hundreds of dentists in his capacity as president of the American Dental Association, Dean Miner found the "most encouraging aspect was the extent to which these basic ideals have permeated the country and entered into the very fabric of the philosophy of dentistry...
...Richard believes that human speech is primitive, that gestures could be much more expressive. His voice apparatus is largely a metal and fabric tube which has parts corresponding to the larynx, tongue, and palate. He gets recognizable syllables by various arrangements of his hands on the mouthpieces. Air is furnished by a bellows which he operates with his foot. Although he designed it to show, by crude but effective imitation, the crudity of human speech, some U. S. listeners thought they could detect in its manual utterances a trace of British accent...
...twelve paintings and seven wash drawings. La Blanchisseuse and most of the other paintings were done on wood. Messrs. Rosen and Marceau discovered that each of the X-rayed wood panels had been scratched over as if by a fine-toothed saw, producing a texture like that of woven fabric. This gave a firm grip to the ground of gesso (whiting and glue) on which the paintings were made. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, this appeared to be a characteristic and unique practice of Daumier...
...determined, for all time, that impeachment was a trial, not to settle a political argument, but to establish crime." Had Johnson's impeachment succeeded, says Author Hendrick, the Presidency "would have been so diminished, would have so become the sport of legislators, that the constitutional fabric would have been shaken almost beyond repair." The U. S. would have had a government comparable to England's Parliamentary system, where the Executive and Judiciary would have had to command a two-thirds majority of both Houses. And the impeachment failed by one vote...