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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schizophrenia no one knows. A schizophrenic may believe that he is Napoleon, or that his children are trying to kill him. Or he may fall into rigid positions, lasting for hours. For many schizophrenics there are no more human emotions-only a slow retreat from life into deathlike stupor. Less than 6% are lucky enough to come back to sanity without treatment...
After ten years of experimenting, physicians take a soberer view of shock treatment. Last week the American Journal of Psychiatry printed no less than ten painstaking articles, by topflight workers in U. S. hospitals and laboratories, on the value of this treatment...
...years, Albert Ryder completed less than 200 pictures. A recluse who painted from imagination, he lived in a messy Manhattan studio. Working on several pictures at a time, he gave them lustre, depth and mystery through alternate layers of paint and glaze. After laboring 18 years on Macbeth and the Witches, one of the romantically sombre canvases in his present Manhattan show at Knoedler's, he remarked: "I think the sky is getting interesting." Critics agree that Ryder's skies are the most interesting in U. S. painting...
Gypsy Smith began evangelizing New York last month in The Bronx, delivered 13 sermons in rich, old Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, moved uptown again last fortnight. He winds up his engagement this week in no less august a fane than the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, with Bishop William Thomas Manning presiding. To his audiences, Gypsy Smith's black eyes have seemed as keen as ever, his voice mellow, his frame limber. (Only last year he married for the second time: a 26-year-old to whom he had long been "my hero.") Never a ranter, Gypsy Smith...
...Wood Industries, Inc.: a garbage truck body with a hydraulic ram tailboard which, as garbage is dumped in at the rear, presses it forward, squeezes garbage juice into a tank. Claims: dry garbage burns better, squashed garbage takes up less room...