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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese term for portrait painting means, literally, "to draw truth." Last week, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art showed some small examples of this interpretation: a show of 46 "War Pictures by Chinese Children...
Wrote Mai-mai Sze, artist daughter of Alfred Sao-ke Sze, former Ambassador to the U.S., in the Museum of Modern Art Bulletin: "Any child in Russia, Europe, or England, might do the counterpart. . . . A war child of the West would also know, as instinctively as the Chinese child, that a black line drawn along the hollow of the cheek is enough to describe hunger, and that people with empty stomachs seldom stand...
Most oldtime hearing gadgets were not only feeble but massive. Many would rather be deaf than use them. In the collection at the College of Physicians' Mutter Museum in Philadelphia there are such monstrosities as an Aurolese phone with a headpiece like a miniature airtight stove, a snakelike ear trumpet, with a scoop intake, the 1896 "London hearing dome" with grilled receiver. At the Philadelphia Society for Better Hearing is an 1894 "hearing fan" to collect sound and vibrate against the teeth. This makes the user look silly but is efficient because sound waves brought in contact with...
...third concert of the season by the Stradivarius Quartet will be given at the Fogg Museum of Art on Monday, May 1, at 8:15 o'clock. This concert will be open free to all members of the University and Radcliffe students, and also to servicemen and their wives stationed in Cambridge. All those wishing tickets can apply either by mail or personally at the Museum, starting tomorrow...
...late Schaffhausen's citizens rushed to bomb shelters. Thirty-five were killed, 52 wounded. The bomb shower struck the Jezler Silverware and International Watch factories, the electric-power station, post office, town museum, the Swiss end of the border railway station (the German end was untouched), and destroyed the homes of some 250 people. It was only a small raid. Estimates of property damage ran over $10,000,000 (for which the U.S. Government is liable...