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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maladjusted students at University of Chicago and other patients, instructed in General Semantics, gained weight, got over insomnia, depression, hallucinations, delusions...
...wrote his University of Chicago Ph.D. thesis on The Emotional Responses of Children to Radio Drama. Last week the university revealed some of his findings: 1) Children often do have violent physiological reactions to radio programs. 2) Violent action is not the only cause of excitement-small children got a major thrill out of hearing a dog bark in his bath. 3) Biggest thrill of all in one program was the offer of a premium...
...Dada intellectuals known best in Manhattan were Marcel Duchamp (Nude Descending the Staircase) and his friend Francis Picabia. Picabia, born in Paris in 1878 of a French mother and a Spanish father, began exhibiting landscapes in Paris in 1894, enjoyed official successes and easy sales until 1913, when he got fed up with success. Moving first to Manhattan, then to Barcelona, finally to Paris in 1920, Picabia poured out bucketfuls of Dada, including his noted Portrait of Cézanne, Portrait of Rembrandt, Portrait of Renoir, Still Lives (all this consisting of a stuffed monkey mounted on a board...
...Grand Old Man Stagg was not through. Instead of accepting a $10,000-a-year sinecure as Chicago's representative in Big Ten Councils, he got a job as football coach at the little College of the Pacific. Last week 76-year-old Alonzo Stagg, still spry and ruddy in his 49th year of coaching, came back to Chicago, sat on a hard bench in the stadium that is named after him and, with mixed emotions, watched his smart little Pacific team trounce the Maroons...
...Dispatch, which takes in 140,000 dimes in Central Ohio, he boldly announced the 5? Sunday Journal, ordered his editors to get it on the street the same day as the Citizen. Syndicate salesmen and jobless Ohio newshawks had a field day as the two new papers got under...