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...plain-spun charm, he had fought and wintered at Valley Forge, painted George and Martha Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Lafayette and many of the other great men of the day in a style renowned for its affable simplicity. Like his lifelong friend Thomas Jefferson, he was an enthusiastic naturalist and inventor, experimented with everything from doorbells to apple-peeling machines. In 1786, he opened the nation's first natural-history museum, run by the Peale family and displaying the reassembled bones of a mastodon they had unearthed near Newburgh, N.Y., together with 100,000 other stuffed animals and objects...
Died. Frank J. Scholl, 83, a name to ease the pain for uncounted millions of becorned, bunioned and otherwise footsore folk, who in 1904, with his brother William, a physician and inventor, started peddling the line of plasters, pads and Foot-Eazer supports that now sells around the world at the rate of $30 million annually; of pneumonia; in Chicago...
...late-blooming life of the party (or what is left of it loyal to Mao), Chiang Ching has been variously explained as the chief inventor of the Cultural Revolution, the guiding force behind Mao, a vindictive Dragon Lady out for personal revenge, and a frustrated starlet seeking the limelight. Though she and Mao are rarely seen together, they dwell in apparent harmony in a villa on a spoon-shaped peninsula in Peking's South Lake...
...make a right. The irresponsible tampering with the body [Dec. 2] of a helpless soul should be censured as unethical and punished as malpractice. I wonder how Johns Hopkins could lend its authority to this vicious kind of surgery, which is based on a most stupid "logic" of its inventor and followers...
This group became known as "the Eight," and made its impact on the U.S. scene with such glum paintings of the cluttered urban scene that they were dubbed "the Ashcan School." But, traveling abroad in 1912 as the agent for Philadelphia Millionaire Dr. Albert C. Barnes, inventor of the bland antiseptic Argyrol, Glackens became more impressed by the vigor of contemporary French painting, helped Barnes acquire at bargain prices high-toned paintings by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Matisse and Renoir...