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While investigating asbestos beds in the Ural Mountains, a Soviet engineer, M. Troutman, himself an amateur artist, met a 14-year-old Russian boy, Peter Miranov, found promise in his drawings. Troutman brought the boy back with him to Moscow, showed his work to Malieva, who declared that, apart from minor technique, he could teach him nothing, as the boy possessed the rarest of natural gifts−correct draftsmanship. Troutman continued further, interested the Soviet authorities, who have recently commissioned the boy to travel through the South to do landscapes for the State gallery...
...Troutman, sufferer from tumor of the brain, was under treatment at the Fort Wayne Hospital, Indiana. Surgeons despaired. An operation, they declared, was hopeless. The patient went to Dr. Charles H. Frazier, Director of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, an institution where operations are performed which command medical attention and newspaper notoriety. For five hours and forty minutes, Troutman was under the knife; six surgeons and physicians, with their assistants, were in action. The patient was so weak that ether could not be administered; a local anesthetic dulled the pain but not the mind of Troutman, who, throughout the ordeal...
...catalogue: W. A. Boughton '07, L. A. Braman '07, G. W. Bricka '07, G. L. Clark '07, W. R. Fay '07, R. F. Gardiner '07, H. L. Higgins '07, A. G. Kahn '07, C. G. Osborne '09, W. J. Sands '07, J. C. Scammell '07, J. C. Troutman '07, J. H. Watson...