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...similar picture with the same title back in 1913, but the train smoke in that one had been different. "I painted the smoke in the form of a globe," he said-not in the form of a small cloudlet. Art experts and three former owners of the painting pooh-poohed the distinction. After hearing the evidence, the court handed down its judgment: De Chirico had peevishly denied his own work, must pay costs plus 330,000 lire ($500) in damages...
...tastes do change. When Peter Blume's big, weird, neatly painted South of Scranton won the coveted Carnegie International prize 16 years ago, critics clucked and the public pooh-poohed. This year the Carnegie jury went overboard for a yet stranger painting by Paris Abstractionist Jacques Villon (TIME, Oct. 30). The Pittsburgh public, meanwhile, has caught up with Connecticut's Blume. When the ballots were counted, the popular prize went to his entry, The Rock...
...many expectant mothers go to the delivery room terrified of what may be about to happen. Many of their fears are baseless, but, says noted Gynecologist James Ramsdell Bloss in the current Journal of the American Medical Association, it does little good merely to pooh-pooh them. By the time the expectant mother has listened to all the superstitions lurking in old wives' tales, heard the faddists explain the newest wrinkle in anesthesia, and read, in the women's magazines, about the latest mysterious blood factor, her fears have become very real...
Frankenstein Monster? Mathematician Wiener had often said this before, and been pooh-poohed as an alarmist. Last week he was not laughed at. Allen N. Scares, vice president and general manager of Remington Rand, Inc., told of a machine, UNIVAC, manufactured by his company, that can do most of the numerical tasks now performed by flesh & blood clerks. In computing payroll checks, for instance, it "reads" (at 10,000 characters per second) two magnetic tapes with numbers coded on them. One tape carries all the data about each employee: his wage rate, tax status, pension deductions, etc. The other carries...
TIME . . . deals rather facetiously with the subject of flying saucers, pooh-poohing all factual data which has made headlines previously. If the saucer operation is a military secret, why say anything about...