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...wall space, which meant for the most part picking abstractions. The art committee was well suited to that task. Its members, aside from SOM Chief Designer Gordon Bunshaft, an avid collector himself, were Alfred Barr Jr. and Dorothy Miller of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art; Robert Hale, curator of American painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; James Johnson Sweeney, then director of the Guggenheim Museum; and Perry Rathbone, director of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts...
...last lines ("evil one," etc.) are painfully close to that brilliant parody of a modern translation of the Twenty-third Psalm by William Harlan Hale, currently the managing editor of Horizon...
...Should we be alarmed by the difference between the behavior of Airman Powers and of Nathan Hale?" asked Fund-for-the-Republic President Robert Maynard Hutchins. He did not wait for an answer. He has already seen dark "signs that the moral character of American society is changing," and has ordered the fund's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions to take a two-year look at the problem. With an assist from such men as Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, University of California President Clark Kerr and Jesuit Philosopher John Courtney Murray, Hutchins hopes to turn...
Substituting an anatomical science-palmar dermatoglyphics-for the ancient pseudo-science of chiromancy. Doctors Alfred R. Hale, John H. Phillips and George E. Burch examined the palm prints of 287 patients, half of whom had congenital heart defects and the other half heart disease acquired later in life. They knew that myriads of tiny creases called axial tri-radii are formed in the palm during the first four or five months of fetal development and, like fingerprints, remain unchanged for life. (These intricate patterns bear no relationship to the impermanent palm lines gypsies call heart, head and life lines.) What...
...diagnostic technique but a tool of basic scientific research that may help them decide whether individual cases of congenital heart defects are caused by genetics or by trouble in the womb. Can a layman tell the difference between "normal" and "abnormal" palm configurations? "No," says Dr. Hale, "and he shouldn...