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...studied in Paris for nine years, there confirmed his devotion to the man he considers the greatest of all still-life painters, Jean Chardin. His luminous, ale-brown eyes flash when he speaks of the exactions of technique, which so many modern artists seem to neglect. Last week he had on his easel what looked like a well-composed impressionist painting, the color masses and emergent figures just right. It represented five weeks' work-only Stage One in a Pushman...
...physical conditioning of students. Those who are responsible for the administration of the program at Harvard feel that our policy should proceed along lines of strengthening rather than weakening our plan of physical conditioning. We feel that all requests for excuses should be most carefully scrutinized and that neglect or abuse of the program on the part of students should be dealt with firmly...
Arthritic deformities-hopelessly gnarled hands or clumsily stiffened joints where two bones have calcified together-"are too often due to neglect" and can largely be avoided. Treatment: simple exercises and a simple splint worn for part of each day. Warm dips, as in old-age rheumatism, are helpful. Curious fact: pregnancy usually brings temporary relief to arthritic women...
Across the Pacific (Warner) is a midsummer melodrama that scarcely gets out of the Atlantic. On a cruise down the east coast of North America (Halifax to the Canal Zone) are Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet. They have such a good time sunning themselves that they neglect to make much of a picture...
Boston Hearstling Francis K. Reilly, a handy man around City Hall, is not one to neglect the boss's interests. But the Hearst press did not thank Reporter Reilly last week for his latest favor...