Word: schwartz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WORLD Is A WEDDING (196 pp.) -Delmore Schwartz-New Directions...
...middle-class Jewish families in New York may seem at first almost too transparently told. But most readers will soon recognize the art in the telling, the overtones of irony and pathos produced by the right clichés, in the right places. With these stories Poet Delmore Schwartz should take his place among the dozen or so most accomplished young U.S. writers...
Myanesin, a new synthetic drug developed from glycerin, relaxes muscles of patients during operations. Since last September the drug's developer, Dr. Frank M. Berger, has been working with Dr. R. Plato Schwartz to find new uses for the drug. If it relaxes muscles during operations, the doctors reasoned, would it also work on muscles tied up by disease...
...infantile paralysis, cerebral palsy, chronic rheumatism, arthritis, Parkinson's disease (paralysis agitans), apoplexy, Pott's disease (tuberculosis of the spine), hardening of the arteries. The doctors tried the drug, given by mouth, on 59 patients; all but one showed improvement-sometimes in five minutes. Drs. Berger and Schwartz consider their work still in the experimental stage...
Inside U.S.A. (suggested by John Gunther's book; music & lyrics by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz; sketches by Arnold Auerbach, Moss Hart and Arnold B. Horwitt; produced by Mr. Schwartz) opened to splash notices and may well run for two years. All the same, some first-nighters found it the least enjoyable Bea Lillie show in a long time. Not that it is really bad or botched: it is all thoroughly professional. It is also thoroughly unoriginal and unexhilarating; it not only fails to shed light of its own, but even dims the cherished Lillie luster...