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...Miss Marion Sheahan, R.N. (the first nonphysician to win a Lasker Award), executive director of the National Committee for the Improvement of Nursing Services...
...early days as a retoucher as well as the paintings of the granddaddy of Paris primitives, Le Douanier Rousseau. Les Loisirs came as close to nature as anything Léger had done for years; he even painted the sky blue instead of dark red as he had first intended. Even so, its handsomeness was like that of a glistening machine designed and put together by a master engineer...
Nine hundred thousand people scrambled to see Van Gogh's first full-scale show in the U.S. (in 1935-36). Last week a repeat performance opened in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...want to get at the underlying reasons for crime, its implications, the responsibilities of society." Editor Lowall, who likes his crime served up in the smoking hot manner of the '20s, put it more bluntly: "I'm going to be house dick for the Denver Post." His first assignment: the bootlegging business in dry Oklahoma...
Other upsets last week: ¶Unpredictable Louisiana State knocked the props from under North Carolina and Halfback Choo Choo Charlie Justice, 13-7, for the Tar Heels' first regular-season setback in 22 games. ¶Underdog Southern Methodist, minus the services of Quarterback Doak Walker (ill with influenza), came from behind to beat undefeated Kentucky...