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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crackpots & Misfits. Bing was expelled from high school for sassing a teacher and went to work as a printer's devil, later as a $2.50-a-week office boy at the Detroit News, Michigan's biggest daily (present circ...
...work of artists of the 2,500 years between, the public could find cats of its choice in all sizes, complexions and dispositions. Among those present: a centuries-old trowel-eared Cat Head in bronze (7th-4th Century B.C.) which stared out of its case with the composed dignity that its important place in Egyptian society had justified; a mummy of the same breed (one of thousands of such embalmed animals found in the Nile Valley), bound into a thin, dusty cylinder with only the ears and sunken face visible; a 15th Century specimen crouched and grinning above a terse...
Handsome cats present were among the oldest and most modern. Egyptian and Oriental artists caught best the cat's agile and delicate movement and velvet-coated strength. British Cinemactor and Cat-lover James Mason had designed some prints showing impressionistic Siamese marching across rayon textile. American Sculptor William Zorach and French Painter Pablo Picasso contributed masterly and unsentimental portraits of sleek, well-fed soth Century tabbies...
Cooper Union's official catalogue-comment avoided larger conclusions about the whole thing: "It seems safe to let the cat, as he is represented in the present display, speak for himself; safe, or at least the part of wisdom...
...cancer-free patients, were nonsmokers. Some 5,000 to 10,000 cases will have to be studied before they are sure, but the three researchers now say that cigarette smoking may be one of many factors in lung cancer. One big reason for present uncertainty: failure to produce lung cancer in laboratory animals by tobacco smoke...