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Chemistry is the largest of the scientific fields. Due to efficient organization, ample personnel, excellent laboratory facilities, and the growing importance of Chemistry in this "Chemical Age," it has rivalled Government and Engineering Sciences for the greatest proportionate increase in recent years. The number of concentrators last year...
...famed Orpheus fountain in Stockholm was finished in 1936 by Carl Emil Andersson Milles, Sweden's greatest living sculptor. In 1931, in his third year as resident sculptor at Detroit's suburban Cranbrook Academy, Sculptor Milles met Alderman Aloe's widow in St. Louis and learned her desire for a group of fountains in Aloe Plaza. In 1936 Mrs. Aloe put up $12,500, the city of St. Louis put up $47,500, and Sculptor Milles was commissioned to do for St. Louis what he had done for Stockholm...
...share of the Hollywood budget will probably be spent by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, opulent producing subsidiary of Loew's Inc. Accustomed to spending as much as $3,000,000 on a picture (Conquest, Marie Antoinette), M-G-M does so to give proper setting to Hollywood's greatest star roster, to produce most of Hollywood's best jobs, many of its stuffiest. Over last fiscal year, Loew's Inc. topped the cinemindustry with a net income of $14,426,062. In the coming season, MGM's schedule calls for 52 films, to include Northwest Passage...
This first novel was inspired by the music but not by the life of Leon (Bix) Beiderbecke, a Davenport, Ia. boy who played the trumpet in Paul Whiteman's band, became one of the greatest of jazz musicians and died in 1931, leaving devotees of swing music to collect phonographic records of his art as reverently as art collectors gather the works of Old Masters. In Young Man with a Horn, the hero is called Rick Martin, and he is presented as a good-natured, hardworking, colorless individual, an orphan who learns to play the piano...
Defending his policy of isolation, he observed that the greatest periods of United States prosperity have been when its citizens have busied themselves with their domestic problems rather than being "sentimental liberals who worry about the freedom of the Afghans...