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...Breton introduced him to the surrealist round table at the Cafe de la Place Blanche, where, in the course of fevered discussions with Picasso and Paul Eluard, he hit on some weird and wonderful notions. Dominguez rose to prominence in the group by such creations as a bas-relief of a horse inextricably tangled with a bicycle, and a "gramophone" with a forefinger in place of a needle and a female breast for a turntable...
...When stolid daughter Miranda, in mute rebellion against her mother's beauty, proposes to marry a mincing dressmaker, Ruby pulls together all her resources and prods Miranda into a decent marriage with a likable young man with the imposing name of James Edouard Goethe de Bas-Pouilly. The implication of the story seems to be that Ruby alone of her indolent set has salvaged something by helping to set her daughter right. But this implication is not likely to strike anyone very forcefully amid the mountains of irrelevant society chatter which Novelist Bagnold has felt obliged to record...
...jugged an important gangster. Chicago's Crime Commission had asked two state's attorneys not to reappoint him, but Tubbo had hung on to the job. He boasted a personal fortune, not very satisfactorily accounted for, of $300,000. After ex-Policeman William Drury and Lawyer Marvin Bas were murdered a month ago (TIME, Oct. 9), it developed that they were about to unload some dirt on Tubbo before the Kefauver Committee investigating organized crime...
...took ten games before the Crusaders were able to score their first win over the Crimson, but since then, 1925, the series has been about even. At no time bas Harvard found the series very easy, although the varsity has won all four contests since the series was resumed...
This year marks the fourth annual performance of "Drumbeats and Song," and is the second year that the entire project bas been run by Student Council. "Drumbeats and Song" was originated in 1947 for funds to support Radcliffe's 70th anniversary fund drive...