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...walls of his cave, artists have been fascinated by the possibilities of sport in art. To prove that artists are still far from ignoring fun and games, the American Federation of Arts and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED have rounded up an exhibition of 102 paintings that show the artist as ardent admirer of the sportsman. The exhibit, previewed last week in Manhattan before its opening in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, will travel crosscountry to six other major museums before winding up in Australia in time for next year's Olympics...
Grudging or not, it was a decision the Assembly could not easily go back on. This week, as Faure called a full-dress debate on the election issue itself, all parties knocked themselves out protesting their ardent approval for the idea of consulting the beautiful, sovereign people...
Voters in Boston's mayoralty election tomorrow will choose either a "not strongly partisan candidate"--incumbent John B. Hynes--or State Senator John E. Powers, an "ardent Democrat," Robert C. Wood, assistant professor of Government, said last night...
Only Words. Like all good things, however, the happy life at Pont-l'Evéque was eventually soured by those who took too great advantage of it. The principal serpent in Warden Billa's paradise was an ardent, free-lancing lover who sent so many uncensored love letters that authorities took notice. An investigation followed, and the carefree warden was arrested along with eight of his prisoners...
...Ulsterman who began life as a tea-merchant's clerk and ended up a part-time writer living alone with his dogs in Belfast, playing bridge and croquet. When he died at 70, in 1947, he left behind a handful of novels and about a roomful of ardent admirers. One was Novelist E. M. Forster, who now introduces the Tom Barber trilogy of novels to U.S. readers. Reid's work, he concedes, has "puerilities and longueurs." But it is the work of "an extremely serious writer...