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Painter Tom Benton, clad only in a pair of blue jeans, was busy getting in his hay on Martha's Vineyard when the good news arrived. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts had just spent $2,000 for Benton's latest portrait, New England Editor (see cut). It had been some time since the champing champion of American-school painting had received such a boost...
...Brussels, Rita Hay worth fainted in a jam of admirers just as she was about to be presented to Belgium's Minister of the Interior. She was revived within a few minutes and got busy signing autographs...
...London, Hollywood's Gloria Jean, ex-cinemoppet-turned-ingenue, fainted onstage as she was singing a lullaby. Responsible, she guessed, was "the unhappy business about my singing the Lord's Prayer." London critics, who considered the song (by Albert Hay Malotte) in bad taste, had vigorously lambasted her that morning. Unfortunate details noted by the Daily Express: she had dedicated the piece to "the people of Britain," and sung it "with the line about 'trespasses' changed to 'forgive us our debts...
Thoroughly relaxed, A.M.A.'s delegates gossiped, gamboled and, for a few days, found nothing much to argue about. But by convention's end, some solemn business demanded attention after all. One grim reminder was a pair of radioactive goats (survivors of Bikini) munching hay in the exhibition hall. Another was an appeal by Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson for the doctors' support of a bill to remedy a serious shortage of Army doctors. The Army has only 1,100 Regulars in its Medical Corps, needs 6,000 for its present strength of some...
...health. Many a European surgeon avoids operations on days when the south wind blows (some think hemorrhages and serious clots are more common on those days). In Alpine sanatoriums. tuberculosis patients are said to get worse when a warm, moist wind is blowing. Allergists are sure that hay fever and some other allergic diseases are airborne...