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...contemporary painting. In the Institute's galleries they are expertly hung by Jack Nash, a slight, nervous, white-pated ex-jockey. Once the jury of award did the hanging, but for the past 20 years Director Homer Saint-Gaudens has given the job to Jack, who pays small heed to names, more to effect. Jack has seen enough Carnegie juries in action to learn what the public never learns: what artists think of painting. Each year he employs his knowledge to guess the winner before the judges arrive. This year he picked U. S. Painter Alexander Brook...
...Pointedly failed to answer, much less heed, Franklin Roosevelt's renewed demand for Labor Peace...
...surgeons were truly impersonal (or, one might say, truly neutral) they would not heed the calls of distress from suffering humanity when they themselves were otherwise engaged in watching the ticker, or playing bridge, or writing thoughtful treatises on the insanity of their fellow men. They would not go to the considerable trouble and risk of using their knives to remove the malignant growths in the body of civilization. They would always find comfortable refuge behind that ancient question, "Am I my brother's keeper...
...Take heed of your position and accept our good advice...
Paying small heed to those about her, the goodwife sipped the water, prayed quietly. Suddenly she felt "the pricking of needles" all over her. Slipping off her shoe and brace, Mrs. Geraci stepped into the pool. She clambered out, jumped up & down, flexed her muscles, exhibited a healthy left foot. Everyone shouted...