Word: bowlings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boys have been over-relaxed and careless, but they always rallied in the clinches, beat Army 26-2, won over Michigan State (the only team to beat Notre Dame) and over Missouri, Minnesota and Northwestern before taking Iowa. Chances are that before long Coach Oosterbaan will be wearing Rose-Bowl-colored specs...
...PIPE, by Georges Herment (164 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $4.95), is an amusing, discursive history of pipes and pipe smoking. Care and cleaning, seasoning, choice of tobacco, how to fill and then empty the bowl, are all gone into with light seriousness-and sometimes almost with mysticism. In an introduction, British Humorist Stephen (Lifemanship) Potter explains about pipemanship, e.g., "practiced pipe smoking is capable of making a cigarette smoker seem flustered and untidy, particularly if [he] maintains a long worm of ash messily drooping from his cigarette...
...Page is about the ideal weight for his 5 ft. 8 in.-and proud of it. One thing that helps keep him there is his token lunch, such as a bowl of clear soup and a gobbet of cottage cheese doused with ketchup, washed down with skim milk. Much of his exercise comes from running up and down stairs in the seven-floor lab building: it is quicker than waiting for an elevator and is good for the muscles in the leg arteries. In summer, Page plays singles tennis, but is careful to play only...
Into the Market. With more money than ever before to buy art, even small museums are dipping into the market. The Springfield (Mo.) Art Museum recently picked up an Albrecht Dürer print, a Ben Shahn painting, Mother and Child, and a 10th century Persian bowl. The big, endowed museums are taking a back seat to no one, e.g., the St. Louis City Art Museum's purchase this month of a Frans Hals portrait for $150,000. Kansas City's collection, which goes back 4,000 years to a Sumerian statue, also goes forward to a recent...
...Christian Middle Ages at first simply and starkly re-enacted Christ's burial. Later, the ceremonials of death became complicated, e.g., many families employed a "sin-eater" who took the dead man's sins upon himself by eating a loaf of bread and drinking a bowl of beer over the corpse. Embalmers, whose craft the book covers in the most intimate detail, advanced steadily (one notable medieval corpse was preserved in olive catsup). It was Leonardo Da Vinci, the father of modern embalming, who developed the method of intravenous injection which was adopted in 17th century England. There...