Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bishop Rowe has four times refused easier bishoprics in the States, has outlasted many a younger man in Alaska. Illness laid him low for the first time in his life last August when doctors hustled him south for treatment of a throat tumor. Safely through three months' X-ray treatments but beginning to show his age for the first time, he is still eager to go, plans to head back to Alaska in January and continue right on up to his missions in the Arctic...
...Citizens Committee, vaudeville and musicals. Results: U.S.O. will give Camp Shows Inc. energetic Eddie Dowling and a $645,000 budget. Buzzing around the Caribbean bases last week was an Army planeload of Camp Shows talent: Funnymen Laurel & Hardy, Singer Jane Pickens, Actor John Garfield, Dancers Mitzi Mayfair and Ray Bolger. Producer Dowling expects to send Broadway hits, cast by George Abbott, Vinton Freedley, other Broadway producers. Most ambitious Camp Shows idea: sending a stock company to Iceland for an eight-to ten-week stay...
Scientists have long known that glass consists of about 46% oxygen by weight but it remained for scientific study to explain how it was spread out through the transparent substance. Dr. Alexis Pincus of American Optical Co. last week announced, as a result of new X-ray studies of the atomic structure of glass, that 92% of its volume consists of nothing but oxygen caught in the interstices of a relatively scanty framework made of silicon and other elements...
...Dreier was converted from an ardent suffragist into the most ardent U.S. booster of artistic revolution. A mediocre painter herself, she traipsed massively through the ateliers and studios of Paris encouraging, propagandizing, buying. With famed French Painter Marcel Duchamp (Nude Descending the Stairs} and U.S. Abstract Photographer Man Ray, she formed the Socieété Anonyme, first society for collecting and spreading modern art in the U.S., started her tremendous collection under its name. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, the Société Anonyme's famed rival, is nine years younger...
Birthday. Tireless Novelist Gertrude Franklin Atherton, 84 (Black Oxen, The Crystal Cup); in San Francisco. "Rejuvenated" by X-ray stimulation of her ovaries in 1922, she spent her birthday pounding out her daily stint of 1,000 words...