Word: river
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Place of Patrons. It was a show calculated to arouse the same "strong attack of nostalgia" that had inspired Rathbone to stage it. To conservatives who might question the art quality of the packet-boat china, menus and bills of lading that Rathbone had interspersed among the river canvases, Showman Rathbone had a commonsense reply: "The first job is to get the people into our museums. The future of art belongs to them and not to the recherche group of the last century. The age of the private patron is gone, and the mass support required to take its place...
...rate than at any time since last winter, when 228,000 came to see the traveling exhibit of Berlin art masterpieces. Rathbone's exhibit was also getting huzzas from other museum men. Said a visiting expert from Louisiana: "It should be shown in every city on the Mississippi River...
...Wells. Anthropologist Fairservis doubts the theory. He found that the city got its water not from.distant mountains but from many now dry wells, 60 feet deep, inside the walls. He thinks that a river changed its course, lowering the water table and making the city uninhabitable...
Gold Dust. In American Cyanamid Co.'s Lederle Laboratories at Pearl River, N.Y. another Streptomyces was found to secrete a gold-colored, germ-killing substance. Dr. Benjamin M. Duggar, the discoverer, called this antibiotic aureomycin. First used on human patients at New York's Harlem Hospital by Dr. Louis T. Wright, the "gold dust" worked wonders for victims of lymphogranuloma. Like Chloromycetin, it deals with many of the rickettsias. In treating brucellosis (undulant fever), aureomycin is likely to replace the streptomycin-sulfadiazine combination much used at present...
Commodore Pete Putnam, of the Harvard sailing team, tied Yale's Bob Monetti for second place in individual scoring honors in the dinghy racing for the Schell Trophy yesterday on the Charles River. But Putnam's efforts were not equaled by the rest of the Crimson sailors and the team ended in fifth place. Yale took first place and hitherto undefeated King's Point finished third...