Word: calder
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Costa Rica's President Dr. Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia assured Mr. Wallace that of all visits from foreign greats, "none has been so glorious as yours, due to the fact that you are a fellow citizen of that peerless democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt." Said Henry Wallace, for publication: "I am not a politician...
...yard Free Style Relay--Won by Yale (Calder, Virden, Spear, Lyon); second, Harvard (Everett, Perry, McNamara, Prier). Time...
...yard run-B. Calder, Andover, 1:19.0; second, W. Chubb, Harvard; third, M. Pincus, Harvard; fourth, H. Hachman, Harvard...
...pieces showed any recognizable relation to the U. S. scene. Most abstract of all were: 1) a nut-&-bolt portrait by David Smith, virtuoso in scrap iron (TIME, Nov. 18); 2) a jittery, swaying mobile made out of fence wire and iron by U. S. Mobilist Alexander ("Sandy") Calder. Most arresting exhibit: a crawling, sluglike, headless, armless and legless female form in plaster with three hips, two breasts and a navel, modeled with necrophilic realism and euphemistically labeled The Span of Life, by Cleveland-born sculptor Hugo Robus. Prices ran from...
Conditions in London's upper-and middle-class shelter districts were not so grim as Writer Calder described. But raw weather and lack of fuel last week ended the "sleep trains" which used to take those Londoners who could afford them into safe, quiet countrysides. As for London's slum areas - where hunting cats prowled hills of rubble by day and humans crouched by night under railway and sewer arches-Writer Calder's war lilies were anything but gilded...