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Sublime Conceit Sirs: In the interest of the record, and in order to save future historians much time, trouble and travail, will TIME, "the ablest historian of our day," search out the facts and report, definitely and unequivocally if possible, on the question of who first uttered that sublime conceit, "As goes Maine, so goes Vermont." MORRIS FREEDMAN Hollywood, Calif...
...crowd of the year was 76,000 at a pre-season game between the Detroit Lions and a team of picked college stars last September. The collegians tied the Lions, 7-to-7, but this was less a set-back than a tribute to professional football. Most of the ablest members of the amateur side were only waiting for the referee's final whistle after a second charity game against the New York Giants a week later before signing contracts as professionals...
...September, disbanded before finishing its schedule. How unimportant "All-America" teams are is proved by professional records. Few All-Americans make good as professionals. Most outstanding professionals-their abilities undetected early enough for ambitious alumni to ease their way at major colleges-were members of teams representing obscure institutions. Ablest ballcarrier in the National League this season has been "Tuffy" Leemans of the New York Giants, in his first year as a professional. He has gained a League-leading total of 830 yards, averaged four yards every time he ran. Last year, when Leemans played at George Washington University...
...between the cubists and present day abstract painters on one hand, and dadaists and surrealists on the other is basic, easily grasped. Abstract painters think of their pictures and statues as objects devoid of meaning, sufficient unto themselves. Surrealist art is still based on reproduction, one reason that its ablest exponents cling to the finicky technique of Victorian miniature painters...
Last fortnight was an important one for parlor Communists and students of caricature. Two of the ablest satirists in the U. S. published books.* Apart from the artists' hatred of war and fascism, and unswerving devotion to socialism, neither books nor authors had anything in common...