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...portfolio of any tycoon who collects etchings will almost certainly be found plates by one or more of the great Scottish trio who are currently the highest priced print-makers in the world: Muirhead Bone, David Young Cameron, James McBey. In Manhattan last week the swank art firm of Arthur H. Harlow & Co. celebrated its 25th anniversary with a hand-picked show of dry points and water colors by round-faced, affable Muirhead Bone, 60. It was no place for the impecunious. The prints ranged from $72 to $1,500, the water colors from $85 to more than $350 apiece...
Coming from a family that has long had the sea in its blood (his brother is Novelist Captain David Bone) Muirhead Bone started life as a bank clerk in Glasgow. Drawing, and particularly etching, always interested him. Working alone and teaching himself, he etched two plates, took them down to London to sell. Instantly Dealers Colnogni & Co. recognized the effectiveness of his draughtsmanship, his forceful use of strong black shadows, bargained for all the etchings Bone could make. Muirhead Bone quit the bank, has never since failed to prosper...
Last year a London dentist and archeologist named Alvan T. Marston found a primitive skull fragment in the gravel at Swanscombe, Kent. Few months later a bigger piece, the left parietal bone, was discovered. In his latest report to Nature Dr. Marston stated that his skull is more primitive in a number of points-including a lower and more sloping vault, "flat ruggedness and non-filled out contours"-than the skull of the Piltdown man, and therefore that the Swanscombe man should be assigned his rightful place as England's oldest oldster...
...Bramy. wife of a dress peddler, mother of four, went to Dr. Brown, complaining of pain in her chest. He decided that a general infection had inflamed the thin sac called the pericardium which contains the heart and caused it to adhere to Mrs. Bramy's breast bone. Surgeon Brown excised a section of the woman's sternum and ribs together with enough rib gristle to enable him to reach into her chest and free the pericardium from its adhesions. At the same time he removed a tiny bit of pericardial tissue. As he suspected, that wall...
...face, causes the features to droop lopsidedly. Other surgeons treat facial neuralgia by injecting alcohol into the nerve, thus stultifying it for a period. This procedure is difficult. The operator must push his hypodermic needle through the cheek and into a small notch in the skull midway between cheek bone and ear. Then he must blindly puncture a nerve slimmer than the lead of a pencil. If he misses the nerve, the alcohol causes dreadful pain. Many victims prefer the neuralgia...