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...Back Room. The revival was due to an enterprising New Zealander named Rex de C. Nan Kivell, who runs the Redfern Gallery. In 1938 he had come across a Dumont landscape in the back room of a Paris gallery. It suggested both the influence of Gauguin and a comparable talent. After the war, Nan Kivell set out to find more of Dumont's work; he roamed all over France, picking up paintings from private collections and the homes of Dumont's friends. In ten years, he succeeded in getting together 54 Dumonts for the current show...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Ezio Pinza, Lilli Palmer, Rex Harrison...
...would be less than modest if I did not tell you that a lion's share of Rex Morgan's success [TIME, Jan. 25] is due to the contribution of my two artist associates, Marvin Bradley and Frank Edgington . . . Years ago comic strips were written and drawn by one man. The modern fiction strips, like Rex Morgan, M.D., are a collaboration between artists and writers...
...practice. Not long ago he received a copy of a medical questionnaire on hypnosis. Psychiatrist Dallis considered his answers carefully, for hypnosis, long the refuge of quacks and magicians, is once more acknowledged to have some valuable uses in psychiatry. A few weeks later, Cartoonist Dallis had Dr. Rex pitted against an artful con man named Landros, who was practicing hypnotism for his own evil purposes on a wealthy young matron. In the course of snagging the villain and turning him over to the law, Dr. Rex gives his readers a cautionary capsule on the value of hypnosis...
Recently, through his syndicate, Dallis got a letter of protest from a former attendant at the Carville, La. leprosarium. Rex, it seemed, had chided one of his comic-strip friends for treating his girl "like a leper." Result: after Morgan puts Landros behind bars, he will tackle the subject of leprosy, or, as Carville prefers to call it, Hansen's disease...