Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...older, greyer doctors, Dr. Harvey's selection as successor to venerable Dr. Warfield Theobald Longcope, 68, was a surprise. It should not have been. Even though such prestige-heavy professorships usually go to more experienced men, Johns Hopkins acquired its early fame through the work of four comparative youngsters, the original "Big Four": William Henry Welch (who began at 43), William Stewart Halsted (41), Howard Atwood Kelly (35), and Sir William Osier* (44). Dr. Harvey is young enough to carry on the tradition. He is also able enough to carry on the good work...
...biggest rise in fame during the year, and who, more than anyone else, changed the news for better or worse...
...least one thing besides the theater their minds meet. Along with Marc Connelly, Arthur Kober and F.P.A., both are passionate regulars in that famed weekly gathering of cutthroat bonhomie that first achieved fame as the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club. This poker game, which Heywood Broun once asked to be kept going till 10 a.m., "so I can make my picket line," and which has been known to run for 33 hours,* is for Grouse "the most refreshing mental bath I can get." The club has a West Coast "branch," and "with luck and a plane," say Lindsay & Grouse...
...well that job has been done can be judged from the worldwide fame of Composers Prokofiev and Shostakovich...
Color is perhaps Henri Matisse's chief claim to fame-he paints with colors that are as loud as a Marine band, as subtly harmonious as a Bach cantata. But "what counts most in a picture," says 76-year-old Matisse, "is drawing and composition." Last week 22 of his black-&-white pen-&-pencil drawings went on view at the Manhattan gallery of his son, Pierre Matisse. It was the first show to come out of France since the war, and it revealed the French master at his joyful best...