Word: karle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veteran Chicago Impressionist Francis Chapin; a muscular tangle of nudes by Indiana's Earnest Freed, entitled Battle of the Sexes. First prize ($1,000) went to Cleveland's Dean Ellis, 27, for an encaustic cityscape which might well have been painted by Ellis' former teacher, Karl Zerbe (TIME...
Stolen Spurs. Reviewing Dr. Hawley's account, Psychiatrist Karl Menninger diagnoses Custer as a psychopath marked by extreme vanity, inhumanity, ruthlessness and a complete lack of loyalty to any friend or cause. Dr. Menninger notes some glaring symptoms of severe neurosis: Custer was noted for gaudy uniforms and bad manners; during the Civil War he stole a pair of spurs given by General Santa Ana to the father of one of his friends who was a Confederate officer; he often exposed his troops to unnecessary danger and slighted their medical care; in his attacks on Indian camps he habitually...
...Burkhart has set up regular clinical sessions for parents (according to their children's ages), and for adolescents with personality problems. Church members are proud of the fact that of 634 of their boys in the armed forces not one was discharged for psychoneurotic reasons. Said Psychiatrist Karl Menninger after studying the mental hygiene setup of Dr. Burkhart's church: "It is the most constructive and comprehensive program I have seen carried out anywhere in America...
...public was let in, in large numbers, but photographers were not. Victor (I Chose Freedom) Kravchenko, onetime Soviet official, was testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee. "Mr. Kravchenko," Committeeman Karl Mundt explained darkly, "may be in considerable danger" if his picture should appear in the papers. Kravchenko consented to having his picture taken afterwards-on his own terms. He carefully changed his blue coat for an investigator's grey jacket, pulled a borrowed Panama down over his eyes, put on dark glasses and shielded his face with his hand. It made a good Page One picture...
...royal tooth puller, Eskelund was one of the few foreigners allowed inside the "forbidden city," where, by the somewhat purple account of his son, languished thousands of doe-eyed beauties of royal blood. Papa told Karl: "When I entered their quarters with my foot drill and instrument box . . . a whole flock of them immediately came running to greet me [with] a come-hither smile full of promise." Later, when the young dentist scaled the betel off the teeth of a native girl in Bangkok, he unwittingly started a fad for gleaming teeth. He was soon swamped with "shy little Siamese...