Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artist Austin Cooper, who, to keep his art "automatic," reads the Psalms while his hands do as they please [TIME, Nov. 14], seems to have a great deal in common with the woman who opens her mouth and lets it say "what it likes...
When she got a list of the artists who were to appear, Mrs. McCullough was a little put out. The second concert featured Larry Adler, the mouth organist, and Paul Draper, the lissome dancer, and she had read enough about them to conclude that both had been busy supporters of various Communist fronts. Hester McCullough went to the telephone and called several board members of the Greenwich Community Concert Association to protest the idea of presenting artists who mixed their art with politics. Most of the members pooh-poohed...
...their research to avoid surgery, Grimson and associates found an answer in banthine, a new synthetic drug which they had been testing on high blood pressure. Banthine, taken by mouth in tablet form four to six times a day, has the same effect as cutting the vagus nerve; it slows down stomach contractions so that food is retained there for as long as six hours, and it reduces the flow of corrosive acid...
Budgets & Books. Over the years, the self-perpetuating board of trustees of the University of Chicago has grown accustomed to wincing every time Robert Hutchins opens his mouth (he once suggested that all universities be burned down every 25 years lest they get into a rut). But he is a crack administrator who has seen $86 million raised for his university, and who seems as much at ease with Chicago's great budget (almost $39 million) as with its great books...
Arcaro got Blue Hills going again but he finished second behind Pilaster. Said Arcaro: "Maybe I should have carried three peas in my mouth and spit one out each time we went by the stand...