Word: funke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Comics & Bubble Gum. The Whitney's curators found few artists portraying local flavor in the tradition of Grant Wood. What they discovered instead was regional groups with a common outlook, like the West Coast's "funk artists," whose gamy, gutsy assemblages have been shown in many national exhibits. Equally vigorous are half a dozen youthful Chicagoans who call themselves "the Hairy Who." As can be seen from Karl Wirsum's The Odd Awning Awed, the style of the Who is based on garish colors and art-nouveau line, draws its imagery from comic strips, bubble-gum wrappers...
Other men* identified, isolated and synthesized vitamins that Funk's discovery presaged. Meanwhile, the slender, 5-ft. 6-in. research scientist focused his intense curiosity on other fields. He moved to the U.S. in 1915 to do cancer research at Cornell University Medical College, became a citizen in 1920. In 1923 he returned to Poland as director of the State Institute of Hygiene. Moving to Paris in 1928, he extended man's knowledge of sex hormones...
Keeping Fit. Returning to the U.S. at the start of World War II, Funk continued his cancer research, later theorized that oncotine and oncostimuline affect the growth of tumors, and postulated that an imbalance of the two might cause the disease. All the while, he retained more than a proprietary interest in nutrition, served as a research consultant to the U.S. Vitamin & Pharmaceutical Corp., helped develop artificial vitamins...
...Funk believed it was preferable for a person to obtain his daily requirement of vitamins from natural foodstuffs. "I get the vitamins I need from eating the right foods," he once said, and his fitness attested to the claim. Nonetheless, he maintained that such factors as bad soil and poor cooking made artificial vitamins not only necessary but "sometimes indispensable...
Died. Dr. Casimir Funk, 83, the discoverer of vitamins (see MEDICINE...