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...engraved chunk of rock now known as the Kensington Stone. It may be seen to this day in an office window on Broadway Avenue, Alexandria, Minn. The farmer found it, so the story goes, embraced by the roots of an aspen tree. Bewildered by its cryptic angular markings, he carted it to Kensington and showed it off. A young Norwegian-born University of Wisconsin graduate named Hjalmar Holand heard of the stone, came to look it over. Then & there began the one-man crusade of which America: 1355-1364 is the latest token...
...dances were un-Nordic. Wigman moved on to Leipzig, was still dancing a little, teaching a little, when the Russians found her. Russian reporters interviewed her and respectfully printed her opinions on the dance, but obviously still preferred their own graceful classic ballet to Wigman's somewhat gymnastic, angular and austere style. Russian authorities readily gave her permission to go on lecture tours and to reopen her school. The time has come, she announced last week, to start building the great, warming fire...
Harry Truman is not worried about George. He has "implicit confidence" in him. On the wall of George's office hangs a picture of the President which bears Harry Truman's accolade. The picture is inscribed in Harry Truman's angular hand: "My very best to a regular guy, my friend George Allen...
...Gaspe the fishing boats still put out from the coves for cod and halibut. Tourists could also put out from the little bays for a day of deep-sea fishing for swordfish and tuna. Perce Rock still stood, angular and orange, out of the blue water. The thousands of birds still nested on Bonaventure Island...
What was happening in Iowa City said one critic, should not happen even in a Manhattan museum. The State University had put on a summer show of 160 modern pictures, and there was not one old-fashioned landscape in the lot. Instead there were angular moderns, surrealist viscera and patterned streaks and splotches...