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...chief philosopher and greatest teacher of representational U. S. art is Iowa's chubby, soft-spoken Grant Wood? Like Benton, Grant Wood studied in France, turned out his share of Blue Vase, Sorrento, House in Montmartre, Breton Market. But in 1929 he radically changed his style. From his palette issued a series of rolling, tree-dotted Iowa fields done in a flat, smooth manner. His landscape of West Branch, Iowa (FORTUNE, Aug. 1932) got the birthplace of Herbert Hoover almost as much public attention as the infrequent visits of that President. Wood's credo: U. S. art suffers from...
...agile, soft-spoken old Negro, who has mounted his pulpit in Washington's 19th Street Baptist Church every Sunday for 52 years, is Dr. Walter Henderson Brooks. Once Dr. Brooks was a slave. Emancipated at 14, he entered Presbyterian-owned Lincoln University near Oxford, Pa., at 15. A gift of $500 from some Pittsburgh Presbyterians enabled him to go through college and theological school, start out on a career which has made him the best known of Washington's many Negro preachers. Last month came a proud day for Dr. Brooks when he wrote to Lincoln's white President William...
...performs two functions. It collects sounds and it keeps track of the body's posture. Sensations of sound and of balance reach the brain along separate but intimately packed fibres of the acoustic nerve, a soft strand the diameter of a slate pencil. In Ménière's Disease only the balancing mechanism of the ear is impaired and all that is essential is to cut only the fibres which conduct balancing sensations. Brain surgeons, like exalted telephone repairmen selecting particular lines in a many-stranded cable, tried with little success?to pick out the balancing fibres of the acoustic...
...three older children, Jenny, Dottie and Joel, whose actions have importance in the unfolding of the story, are followed through critical phases of their lives. Jenny, soft and sweet, an expert at shoplifting marries stiff-necked Berkely Howard, a rum-runner. The idyll of their love is broken off when revenue officers shoot Berkely. Dottie is the viciously respectable member of the family. She marries a Cannel mill-worker, over steps herself in a plot to regain favor with the paternal grandmother who had disowned her father. The scene in which the cumulative effect of her underhandedness comes back...
...York, Mayor LaGuardia sought to temper his aide's sharp words with some soft ones of interpretation. Said he: "It is just a matter of the men defending themselves when they are attacked?that's what the Commissioner meant. They are working against a desperate condition. The department has lost six men in the last six months and four more are dying...