Word: victims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleagues, Tcheng Loh found Nanking too hot for him, some time ago took refuge in the Japanese-controlled quarter of Shanghai, leaving detailed administration in Nanking to his Japanese advisers. Even in Shanghai, however, Japan finds it difficult to protect her creatures. Tcheng Loh was the 52nd victim of political assassination in the Shanghai area since Japanese occupation of the city...
...bookish detectives is tall, goggled Scenarist Harry Kurnitz, longtime mystery writer for pulp magazines, who writes under the false-whiskery pen name of Marco Page and the influence of Dashiell Hammett. His characters first appeared last spring in a spade-calling mystery novel, Fast Company, in which the main victim was poetically conked with a bust of Dante. Last summer Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice played them first for cinema in MGM's fumigated version. In Fast and Loose, Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell show up as the likeliest pretenders to the places of William Powell and Myrna...
Most startling: Rosalind Russell finding victim No. 2 stuffed into a suit of armor...
...handsome, resolute and rather wild, with very large eyes. His theory of art excluded ordinary realism, involved an utter dependence on imagination and on clear and perfect line in rendering it. "All the copies, or pretended copies of Nature, from Rembrandt to Reynolds, prove that Nature becomes to its victim nothing but blots and blurs." What sources his work had were in Renaissance pictures which he knew through his own large collection of prints. His masterwork, done after he was 50, consisted of pencil and watercolor illustrations such as The Temptation of Eve (see cut), magnificent engravings for the Book...
...Music has long been used in the psychiatric wards of Bellevue and Johns Hopkins Hospitals with remarkable, if temporary, success. Schubert's Ave Maria will quiet raging maniacs, claims Dr. Podolsky, and Beethoven's Egmont Overture has cheered many a victim of melancholia. A champion of pure music, Dr. Podolsky finds small medical virtue in swing, warns psychiatrists off Wagner "warhorses" and "severely intellectual modern music," urges them to add Chopin and Mozart to their musical pharmacopoeia...