Word: though
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Gaines appeared in person at Chicago before doctors from all over the country, as Exhibit A in a two-day conference on ACTH sponsored by Armour & Co., first commercial producers of the hormone. His case offered the most dramatic evidence to date of the powers of the new drug. Though cautious in prediction as always, doctors studying Gaines's recovery -together with that of several badly burned children-seemed inclined to agree that ACTH (which has been hopefully tried out on virtually every ailment from tuberculosis to snakebite) might prove a potent cure for burns...
...enough in detail, he figures, it can be dramatically simple in its overall effect. He once devoted three quarters of a painting to a grassy hillside, spent a month and a half brushing in each grass blade separately "to make it come toward you, that surge of earth." Perfectionist though he is, Wyeth does not aim to please. The warmth, charm and dazzle of color are foreign to him; so are rhythmic arabesques of line. Using egg tempera and tiny brushes, he paints mostly with dull browns, greys and blacks, composes his pictures to create a deathly sense of stillness...
...Rome, Pope Pius XII issued an encyclical (Mirabile Illud) calling for a "sacred crusade" for peace. Though destined for other purposes, the human mind, he said, has devised "instruments of war of such power as to raise horror in the souls of all honest persons, above all because they do not strike only the armies but often wipe out private citizens-children, women, the aged and the sick-and with them sacred buildings and the most outstanding monuments...
When Novelist Fitzgerald died in 1941, by then one of Princeton's famous alumni (though he left for World War I before graduating), his family did not quite know what to do with all his manuscripts and papers. Eventually, the family decided to send them to the Princeton Library, where they could be safely stored. Last week, going a step further, his daughter Frances Scott (now Mrs. Samuel J. Lanahan) announced that she had turned the papers over for keeps. With that gift, every major piece of Fitzgeraldiana from Paradise to The Last Tycoon will become permanently available...
...images" and "the RCA tints seemed somewhat less warm" than those of CBS. The Wall Street Journal's Joseph Guilfoyle complained that "the reds were off-color" in some pictures. Joseph Kaselow, in the New York Herald Tribune, agreed that the improved RCA color was "basically good," even though marred by "fuzziness" and "unnatural flesh tones...