Word: schwartz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scot, a Spaniard, a Pole and two U. S. natives. Rated best of the lot were the Russian, William Samuel Schwartz, and the two U. S. natives, Aaron Bohrod and Francis Chapin, ranking among Chicago artists along with the two Albright brothers...
...Schwartz last week showed 14 symphonic forms, sultry, rich splotches of color into which had been thrown trees and unidentifiable objects. Now 39, Schwartz came to the U. S. at 17 from Smorgon, Russia, was successively steelworker, housepainter, restaurant singer before he got friends in Omaha to stake him to a year at the Chicago Art Institute. Since then the voluble little intellectual has won three Institute prizes. Unmarried, he lives in a two-room, cluttered studio, sometimes sings in vaudeville, has a government commission for a mural in the Fairfield, Ill. post office...
...Schwartz and Peck first queried the most revered pharmaceutical chemist in the country, Frederick Barnett Kilmer, 83, head of Johnson & Johnson's laboratories at New Brunswick, N. J. since 1889. Mr. Kilmer told them that, as the result of his investigations, he considered the ingredients of adhesive tape not irritating as such; that the skin secretions are retained under the moisture-repellent coating with a resultant maceration of the epidermis. This, rather than idiosyncrasy, said Mr. Kilmer, is the most frequent cause of the irritation...
...Schwartz and Peck found the manufacturers of adhesive tape as secretive about the ingredients and methods of manufacture as they are about the yearly yardage and dollar value of their plaster. Eventually the following list of ingredients became clear: rubber, rosin. "Burgundy" pitch, olibanum, beeswax, zinc oxide, anhydrous lanolin, starch, orris root...
Pointing a reproving finger at adhesive tape manufacturers, the Schwartz-Peck report to Surgeon General Gumming concludes: "Research in adhesive manufacture should make it possible to substitute non-irritating types of rosins and rubber for the present types...