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...Yale-trained (class of 1920) son of an artist, "Reggie" Marsh studied painting at Manhattan's Art Students League, made his reputation in the late '20s with Hogarthian studies of city low life ("Well-bred people are no fun to paint"). His Strip Tease was easily, by the width of a broad bottom, the raciest picture the staid Corcoran had ever thus honored. It showed a slightly idealized, if muscular, ecdysiast in mid-routine. The variously brooding faces of seven balding burlesque-addicts include the artist's own, in foreground (see cut). Artist Marsh found the inspiration...
After a national runny-nose count, the indefatigable Dr. Gallup announced last week that 1) children under ten have nearly twice as many colds as people in their 20s, 2) more farmers (by a handkerchief's breadth) have colds than villagers and cosmopolites, 3) 21,000,000 citizens had colds between...
...aged 20 to 29, examined at military induction centers in May 1943, was 68.15 inches, two-thirds of an inch more than the height of the same age group among the first million mobilized for war in 1917. The proportion of six-footers among men in their 20s is now about a third greater than it was 25 years...
...United out from under costly leases signed in the late '20s and early '30s, took advantage of the easy-money market to cut annual interest charges from $1,500.000. to $650,000. Sales, which amounted to $122,000,000 in 1942, will pass $145,000,000 this year. Dart, taking no credit to himself, attributes the gain to the war boom and says that the results of his improvements are yet to be reflected. But profits before taxes rose from $7,520,092 in 1942 to $10,066,640 last year. Thus United was in shape to expand...
...education of versatile Dr. Sablan has involved a series of shuttles across the Pacific. He first traveled to the U.S. at Government expense in the early '20s to study agriculture. In 1924, after getting a degree at Oklahoma A. & M., he returned to his island to teach agriculture and music. On a second trip to the U.S., he got his master's degree in agriculture. His third trip, lasting seven years, was to study medicine. He got back home in 1940 with an M.D. from the University of Louisville School of Medicine...