Word: autumns
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While spring is the main season for rugby, last autumn's team had a floating membership of about 40 players, of which only five were freshmen chasing after the ever-elusive P. T. credit. Besides Captain Rob Albert, Terry Turner, al Ellis, Jorg Hardoy, and Martin Lindsay, all players with experience ranging up to Harrods's 13 years of play in Argentina assisted with the coaching...
Among them are Sea Birds (from the Metropolitan Museum) and Light in Autumn (opposite). Both have the flawed-crystal complexity, the hint of cubism applied to open air, that has become his trademark. Thon builds each composition on a lattice of smudgy rectangles, laid in partly with putty knives, and laces his sharp, delicate outlines well into the lattice. An extraordinary yet unobtrusive richness of texture results. More important, Thon's technique stretches and modifies the vision of the viewer. In his pictures, air has peculiar sparkle and density, and the things it seems to enclose look fragile...
...such department stores as Macy's, Bamberger's and J. L. Hudson's. The famed Macy parade in Manhattan was taken over for TV by NBC's Home program, and the usually competent Arlene Francis seemed to lose all her accustomed aplomb out in the autumn air. Arlene spent most of her time clucking maternally at some refugee children, miscalling the floats (she shocked uncounted millions of children by repeatedly identifying Mighty Mouse as Mickey Mouse) and caroling desperately to Commentator Hugh Downs: "Hugh! What have you got up there for us, Hugh? Oh, Hugh...
...Minh is a poet: Suddenly I hear the autumn flute sounding coldly like a signal on the screened hillside...
...topsy-turvey football season drew on, teams vanished from the unbeaten list like autumn leaves. Twice-tied Colgate was surprised by Syracuse, 31-12, while in the Southwest Conference, Arkansas switched too late from defense to offense and lost to Southern Methodist, 21-14. Remaining undefeated, untied teams: Ohio State, U.C.L.A., Oklahoma...