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...evidence of Gauguin's ceaseless experimenting, tireless ingenuity. Visitors could see how the artist became dissatisfied with his woodcuts after making a few impressions, altered details that displeased him, strengthened effects that he liked. Curator of prints, Carl O. Schneiwind, who assembled the show and is revising the Guérin catalogue of Gauguin's prints, believes that as Gauguin's rich paintings resemble tapestry, his woodcuts resemble murals. To prove it he made a photographic enlargement of Gauguin's biggest woodcut, dramatized his thesis that Gauguin was a natural muralist who could not find, either...
Died. León Charles Albert Calmette, 70, sub-director of Paris' Pasteur Institute, developer of BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin) vaccine for tuberculosis immunity; of peritonitis; in Paris. Helped by Veterinary Surgeon Charles Guérin, he produced a sluggish strain of tuberculosis bacilli from cattle, made a vaccine which was given to hundreds of thousands of French babes with apparent success. The harmlessness of BCG was violently challenged when 76 vaccinated German infants died of tuberculosis (TIME, Nov. 23, 1931). Although the courts found that negligence of hospital attaches was responsible and the League of Nations...
...Instead of speaking straight English (as scheduled) he skipped back & forth between English and French: "Gentlemen. ... I believe this is the first time in history that any sovereign has presided at the opening of a conference of all the nations of the world. . . . "Messieurs les délégués, c'est avec trés profonde émotion que je vois autour de moi cette auguste assemblée qui parait si vaste mais qui représente une conception infiniment plus vaste-d'espoir et les voeux du monde entier. . . . Messieurs...
Boston has its share and perhaps more, of frauds. The Boston Better Business Bureau was built up by Mr. Greene and now has over 600 members. Last fall they exposed the methods of Wrestler Gu's Sonnenberg. It has been especially active recently in routing out stock promoters; it put a quietus on many Boston Curb Exchange operators. Last fortnight it published a bulletin which contained some surprising firms and products which it flayed for offering stock with merchandise...
...University, one L. P. Smith of the Society for Pure English, and Lecturer Lloyd James were the gentlemen selected to see that Britons should not, through hardening to voices in the air, fall into such malaproprieties as saying "acow-sticks" for "acoustics" "despick'-able" for "des'picable," "gu-raghe" for "ga'rage" "lie'aizon," "for leeay'zon" revelant" for "relevant" "Balon'ie" for "Bouloan' " (Boulogne), "charrabanks" for "sharabang" (as the British doggedly pronounce the French char-à-bancs...