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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eighteen years ago this week, when she sat down at the keyboard of Hearst's Herald, newsmen laughed. They knew Eleanor Patterson Gizycka Schlesinger, then 46, as a willful society woman turned big-game huntress and rancher, who had married a Polish count and regretted it, then a lawyer who died four years later. Even Hearst, who first hired her, underestimated her newspapering instinct, almost as keen as that of her brother, Joe Patterson, or Cousin Bertie McCormick...
Another group highlighted the early work of Italy's only remaining first-rank painter: Giorgio de Chirico. The aging genius, who long ago ditched surrealism to imitate dead masters, was embarrassed, not pleased by the honor. He angrily sued the Biennial Committee for displaying his earlier indiscretions (which vastly outshine what he has done since). It was all part of a dirty plot to encourage the "commercial maneuvers" of the big art dealers, he said. He also wrote a letter to the press declaring that "It is simply ridiculous and injurious to call 'art' all these miscarriages...
...Cover) Long, long ago, when ancient Greece's local wars were called off so that Greek could meet Greek in the Olympic games, athletes were faddish about food. At one stage, the training-table diet for athletes was fresh cheese at all meals - and nothing else except water. Then things swung the other way: Milo of Crotona, the greatest wrestler of ancient times, ate an entire ox at a single sitting...
Mostly Mental. Most from of the U.S. trackmen-recruited 20-odd states - had met for the first time on the cinders at Evanston, Ill. three weeks ago, or on the trip over. The 1948 squad differed a little from former U.S. teams: the majority of them were ex-G.I.s, many were married, and some had kids at home. At one training table, nobody followed the ancient Greek rule - designed to prevent dyspepsia and headaches - that only the lightest topics be discussed at mealtimes. The conversation volleyed from the high price of neckties to reincarnation (one sprinter wanted to come...
Sleepless Night. Three weeks ago, when he set out for Evanston to compete for a berth on the Olympic team, he suddenly realized that he was on his own: "I wish I could have brought Shirley Ann along-she kind of organizes me." At the Great Lakes Training Station, where the athletes were quartered four to a room, all his roommates talked about was winning. The night before, he couldn't sleep a wink. Next day in the 100 meters,* he got a slow start and lost out to veteran 30-year-old Barney Ewell, who won in world...