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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabot & friends, in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine last week, promised that they would cause "minimum disturbance to existing private medical practice." But the Journal pointed out that plans for Health Service, Inc. had been submitted to the Massachusetts Medical Society last spring, had been flatly turned down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health Service, Inc. | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Last fortnight Scotland's famed physiologist, 68-year-old Sir Robert Hutchison, made some remarks on the style of British and American medical literature. Occasion: A David Lloyd Roberts (famed obstetrician who died in 1920) memorial lecture before the London Medical Society. The average time before papers get into print in scientific journals is around 12 months, but last week's issue of the British Lancet gave Sir Robert's speech front-page billing. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: To Throw at the Cat | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...guineas, but a print of his wife brings only 5." With this sage precept in mind, a group of Manhattan socialites set out to organize an exhibition for the benefit of civilian relief in France. Result: a sprightly show that opened on Manhattan's 57th Street last week-"The Horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Horses, Horses, Horses | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...must risk fallen arches tramping through museums. To bring good painting to the family circle, many a low-priced art book, crammed with color reproductions, has lately been published in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 23). Another venture in the way of such home museums was put out last week by William H. Wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Home Museum | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

World-Famous Paintings needed 250,000 gallons of milk (for casein) to make the coated paper on which it is printed. Some of its time-tried favorites: The Last Supper, Mona Lisa, The Birth of Venus, The Laughing Cavalier, Shoeing the Baby Mare, The Angelus, Mrs. Siddons, The Music Lesson, The Blue Boy, Whistler's Mother. Editor Kent was allowed no say in deciding which pictures were to be used. Says he: "Had the selection of pictures been left to me it would have come to include many that are now in the volume. And with what vindictive fury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Home Museum | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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