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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brain surgeon, author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning Life of Sir William Osler (1925), father-in-law of the President's eldest son, James Roosevelt; of a heart attack; in New Haven, Conn. Bright-eyed, white-haired Harvey Cushing's slight & stooped figure was gigantic in neurology (see p. 71). He taught and worked at Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Yale, perfected almost single-handed the techniques of many brain and nerve operations. Caring little for relaxation, less for social affairs, he labored phenomenally, sometimes spent eight hours on an operation, then always jotted down notes and sketched diagrams for hospital...
Baseball fans, aware that the Yankees have most of the best young baseballers in the U. S. tucked away on their farms, wondered if they would live to see, ever again, a pull-devil-pull-baker World Series...
...black and white reproductions-and television cannot yet transmit color-Charles Sheeler's dryly accurate paintings can scarcely be told from his camera studies of similar scenes. Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art's show could more readily distinguish between his canvases and photographs, see also his drawings and industrial designs. Stoop-shouldered, scholarly Artist Sheeler, 56, likes to paint barns, skyscrapers, old furniture, factories. All these meet the Sheeler fondness for functionalism. Ignored in his paintings are men and women-inefficient machines capable of measuring the stars...
...Center.* Most extraordinary of the hospitals in this doctors' Mecca is the 14-story Neurological Institute, erected ten years ago through the heroic efforts of late, great Neurologist Frederick Tilney. Last year, after wielding an influence among devoted young neurologists second only to that of famed Harvey Gushing (see p. 60), Dr. Tilney died. As acting director, the trustees appointed modest Dr. Robert Frederick Loeb. Last week, warmhearted, diplomatic Tracy Putnam came down from Harvard to take Dr. Tilney's place...
...driving without a license, ?3 for not stopping when ordered, ?2 for careless driving, 178. 6d. for not observing blackout headlight restrictions. Total fine: $25.50. The arresting constable complained that Amy used her nails on him, but she held her fingers up to the judge, said, "You can see I haven't got the kind of nails which scratch." To the officer's accusation that she cursed him, she replied: "I'm sorry about the language but I work with pilots and say 'damn' like an adjective...