Word: kansan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editors Craven and Boswell, both grassrooters for the current U. S. school, preach an esthetic doctrine of flag-waving. Writes Critic Craven, himself a Kansan: "These vigorous Americans . . . have achieved a body of painting . . . which has announced the beginning of a distinctly American style." Editor Boswell makes the eagle scream louder, says contemporary U. S. painting is "bred of politico-economic nationalism and the concurrent resentment against the high-pressure dumping of inferior foreign art on the home market." His small-town merchant advice: "Patronize your local art exhibitions...
From a situation that could not be misconstrued even by the average student, the dance manager selection has been blotched into a mess that would stump anyone but a shyster lawyer. Here are the dates in the evolution of this comedy of errors. -The Daily Kansan...
...Arkansas Traveler (Paramount) carries a dedication, quoted from LIFE, to "William Allen White ... a living symbol of small-town simplicity and kindliness and common sense." Unsentimental cinemaddicts, however, will perceive that the real purpose of the picture is not so much to pay tribute to that celebrated Kansan as to carry its star, Bob Burns, a step closer to the peculiar niche of public approbation once occupied by the late Will Rogers...
...years ago a Frenchified Russian, Dr. Serge Voronoff, and a Kansan who almost became Governor of his State, Dr. John Richard Brinkley, made fame & fortune by grafting monkey and goat glands into decrepit males. Later a Viennese, Dr. Eugen Steinach, finding gland grafts useless, got beneficial results by a small operation which prevented the gradual loss of male hormones, which make men virile. But the real advance in man's age-old search for virility began only: 1) when Dr. Adolf Butenandt of Germany, after treating 62,500 gallons of urine, succeeded in crystallizing one two-thousandths...
Only a sprinkling of the 17,000 ardent track fans who last week filled Manhattan's Madison Square Garden and overflowed three deep around the rim were surprised when Kansan Glenn Cunningham, now running for the New York Curb Exchange and mightier than ever at 28, won the Wanamaker Mile for the fifth time in six years. But they were all quite unprepared for what they witnessed in the running of the 60-yd. dash...