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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doctors do not know exactly what causes rheumatic fever, which is one of the worst killers of children, and sometimes leaves even its survivors with badly damaged hearts. But one researcher believes that he has spotted the killer's breeding grounds: poor and broken homes...
...advice of his editorial board-the Eastman School of Music's Howard Hanson, Columbia University's Douglas Moore and Child Psychologist Randolph Smith-he also started putting out the kind of music children didn't know they would like until they tried it. He began to get reactions from seven-and eight-year-olds such as "I like Stravinsky . . . You take nice jumps and land on your toes." As fast as Grenell could press them, kids all over the U.S. began devouring such nutritional morsels as Haydn's Toy Symphony, Mozart's Country Dances, Liadov...
...brush for his murals, which are to represent the Virgin and Child, St. Dominic and the Stations of the Cross. Like the windows, the murals please him enormously. "All my life," he exults, "I've studied the works of other artists-Raphael, Griinewald, Memling-but do you know what enabled me to free myself from their influence, to satisfy myself with my work? Operational shock! "In 1941 I had a serious operation and almost died. But I survived, and I thought, 'Look, Matisse isn't dead!' With this extra life I could do as I pleased...
...Wall Street, baffled brokers did not know what to make of things. Despite the strikes in steel, coal and aluminum, which had thrown at least 1,000,000 out of work and caused the worst postwar shutdown, the stock market kept right on going up. Last week, in some of the busiest trading of the year, the Dow-Jones industrial average rose 1.59 points to 186.78, a new high for the year...
...Friend Irma (Paramount), as millions of radio fans know, is a dizzy, alluringly dumb blonde. Cy Howard, her CBS creator and co-author of the screenplay, has seen to it that in her first screen appearance, Irma (Marie Wilson) is just as her fans would have her. She keeps the butter in the oven, the egg beater under a sofa cushion; she short-circuits the plans of her boy friend (John Lund) and her roommate (Diana Lynn), and in general does everything in the least rational way possible. None of this is very funny and much of it is downright...