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While Charles-Edward Amory Winslow was a student at M.I.T. in the '90s, one of his teachers was a man dedicated to a relatively new idea: that the health of the people is a proper concern of governments. The teacher, William T. Sedgwick, has gone down in history as the father of the public-health movement in the U.S. In Manhattan this week, Pupil Winslow won a special ($2,500) award from the Albert & Mary Lasker Foundation because he has fathered modern public-health practice, not only in the U.S., but around the world...
Public health in Winslow's youth was largely limited to water supply and sewage disposal (both of which the Romans had been good at 2,000 years earlier), plus vaccinations against smallpox and faltering efforts to halt the spread of infectious diseases. Biologist Winslow, who lists himself as a "sanitarian," worked in the state health departments of Massachusetts and New York, then moved on in 1915 to a full-dress professorship in public health at Yale...
...ease and gaiety to show in his work, the same effect that Renoir always achieved. Hopper's 20 contributions are comparatively dour, and less deft, but their directness and monumentality may help earn him a place in history next to the two great masters of American painting, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Max Gubler's 42 paintings turn the Swiss pavilion into a sunlit peak, and assure the reputation of a hitherto little-known artist. "Talent and ideas," says Gubler, "are nothing. The job is to paint what you have seen and what you feel in the only...
Another patient who went to the circus instead of a cemetery is Little Joe, also eight. Within ten days, isoniazid ended his unbearable headache and loosened his stiff spine and neck. Now Little Joe is the life of the men's ward at Winslow Indian Sanatorium, first up in the morning and (complain the tired oldsters) the last to turn in at night...
...center of American civilization as the Gothic cathedral had been in Europe. Its hard-hewed timbers formed the foundations of a way of life that began with religious dissent and ended, after a long and interesting journey, in political democracy. To show how this process worked, Ola Elizabeth Winslow, a Pulitzer prizewinner in 1941 for her biography of Jonathan Edwards, has written Meetinghouse Hill: 1630-1783 (Macmillan; $4), published this week...