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...syphilis drive by forbidding marriage unless both the man and the woman produced a doctor's certificate that they were free from both syphilis and gonorrhea (TIME, July 12). Several other States have bills of the same purport in their legislatures. Last week the young editors of the genteel Ladies' Home Journal, Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Gould, published a syphilis article by Paul de Kruif & Dr. Parran...
...sight. The veterinarian flatly refused. Town Counsel William Olsen threatened to seek an injunction, whereupon Dr. Shapers hired lawyers to contest the action. Iron Mike, his tongue hanging out, his coat of paint scrubbed carefully by Dr. Shapera's housekeeper, continued to gaze benignly at genteel Eastchester...
Elected. Maurice Duperrey, French industrialist and linguist (French, Spanish, English, German, Italian, Esperanto); to the presidency of Rotary International; at the 28th annual convention in Nice. Backed by France's No. 1 Rotarian, genteel President Albert Lebrun. Maurice Duperrey breaks the longtime U. S. grip on Rotary International's presidency. Rotary-International's immediate objective: improved Franco-German relations...
...only the great are painted by Britain's adept portraitists. Genteel humor has never been despised by the Royal Academy. Year ago Caricaturist George Belcher, who stalks about Chelsea in a large black hat and satin stock and who prefers char ladies and costermongers for models, made headlines at the Academy with a portrait of a fat man playing a cornet. Quick to repeat a good thing, he sent two similar portraits to this year's Burlington House. Best was Brother Fetch, a London commissionaire in full regalia of the Order of Buffaloes, elegantly curling his buffalo horn...
Nudes have never been rejected by the Royal Academy, but they have always had to be genteel nudes. Ablest figure in the Academy was Model Resting by David Jagger (see cut). Round this a small storm centred, not because the well-painted figure was nude, but because her toenails were polished crimson, a Continental touch that many critics felt to be un-British...