Word: biennially
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Though the Ryder Cup has invariably been won by the golf team playing on home ground, on the eve of the biennial Cup matches in England last week Captain Walter Hagen boldly picked his U. S. professionals to win, was so confident that he ventured to predict the score: 8-to-4. To oppose Great Britain's topflight Golfers Henry Cotton and Alf Padgham in the opening "Scotch foursome" (partners hitting alternate strokes) he thereupon picked not Tony Manero and Ralph Guldahl, U. S. Open champions for 1936 and 1937, but Byron Nelson, 25-year-old one-time Texas...
...Washington's Corcoran Gallery last week the 15th Biennial Exhibition of U. S. painting closed. Out of more than 2,000 pictures submitted, the jury picked 461 pictures by 405 artists, from 28 States, distributed $5,000 in medals and prizes. Most of the best-known younger artists in the U. S. were represented. First prize ($2,000) went to Edward Hopper for one of his familiar old houses, painted in the sharp yellow light of a Cape Cod afternoon. Second prize ($1,500) and a silver medal went to Painter-Critic Guy Pène du Bois...
...same questions. To consider cricket the "national game" of a world-wide empire is to do it a grave injustice. Extremely dull either to play or to watch, it thrives because in addition to being a game, it is an art, a religion and a huge tea party. The biennial matches between England and Australia, cricket's No. 1 event, combine for Britishers the attractions of a World Series, a Madrid corrida and a Nazi jamboree...
...which is to get people into church. To rekindle themselves and their followers, the Federal Council of Churches sent out a "Preaching Mission" of 70 crack pulpiteers last autumn. Last week, in the wake of the Mission's Manhattan windup (TIME, Dec. 14), the Federal Council held its biennial meeting in Asbury Park...
...artists, submitted by invitation only, went up on the Museum's walls. Present was practically every well-known name in modern U. S. painting, with the possible exception of Thomas Benton. Perhaps he had nothing ready to show. Differing from most mass art shows, the Whitney Biennial has no jury, offers no prizes, but the Whitney offers far more practical rewards by buying from its large endowment a great many more pictures from each Biennial than it ever expects to hang permanently on its walls. Critics rooted loudest last week for a portrait of a pert chorus blonde...