Word: gusto
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This tale is typical of the dozens told with gusto in Bellevue (Julian Messner; $2.50), published this week by Mrs. Lorraine Maynard, a pretty, risible free-lance writer. She wrote it in collaboration with Dr. Laurence Miscall, associate visiting surgeon at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, who is especially interested in chest surgery, diabetes, frostbite, gastrointestinal tumors, and human nature. Dr. Miscall once operated on Mrs. Maynard's husband. Thereafter she did volunteer work at Bellevue, got the idea for her book...
...American exhibition was getting installed at the Riverside Museum. Most of its paintings were as postcardy as the usual Latin-American run. But a group of 25-odd canvases stopped visitors in their tracks. They were by a little-known Brazilian, Candido Portinari. His landscapes and figure paintings had gusto. Some of them swarmed with quietly horrifying surrealist doodads, some showed Negroes sweltering under Yale-blue Brazilian skies. A few, weirdly spotted with vultures, skulls and blowing bed sheets, depicted odd, forbidding calvaries with scarecrows hanging from crosses. All of them were painted with a virtuoso's brushstroke...
Half-starved, like most other great railroad equipment companies, on the trickle of orders from the U. S.'s No. i transportation medium, A. C. F. turned to tanks with gusto. To handle the Army order, plus $12,000,000 in contracts from the Allies for shells, A. C. F.'s Berwick plant boss, spectacled, trap-mouthed Guy C. Beishline built three new plant additions, started an ordnance department, filled it with annealing hearths, lathes, other machine tools. A. C. F.'s flint-shelled armor plate for tanks is made by a secret process, involving endless steel...
...California's Mills College last week, summer-school students filed on to a stage before a Picasso-like background of musical scales, picked up an assortment of bells, whistles and drums, and let go with everything they had. With ordered gusto they banged, rattled, beat, blew, stomped and rang their way through Henry Cowell's Pulse, John Cage's Second Construction, William Russell's Chicago Sketches, Lou Harrison's Canticle, Amadeo Roldan's Ritmicas V and VI. When they had finished, the audience gave percussive approval. Wrote Musicritic Alfred Frankenstein in San Francisco...
...Janis thoroughly enjoyed World War I. As soon as the U. S. was well in, the veteran actress, who since the age of five had been entertaining audiences with mimicry and handsprings, dashed off to France to entertain the doughboys. How she did it she later told with much gusto in her autobiography, So Far, So Good! "From the fuss that the fellows made over me, I'm sure they thought I must be at least the American edition of Bernhardt. Imagine their surprise when my performance consisted of telling stories filled with hells and damns. . . " The former Sweetheart...