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...become permanently adjusted to living conditions that include ten picnics a day, sleeping four hours out of 24, mostly in 15-minute catnaps, living, in full view and earshot of the crowds that come to watch the race, in a shelter that looks like a flag-draped motorcycle crate and contains one cot for both members of a team, one shelf for all personal belongings, including axle oil. Six-day bicycle riders find their Spartan circumstances beneficial. Many gain weight in races, reduce in the intervals between them. A cyclist's compensation is from...
...able Italian Giorgio de Chirico, who, besides his familiar studies of prancing horses and Roman columns, likes to paint surrealist views of long deserted streets in dream cities, adding to one work a startling note by carefully painting realistic tea biscuits on the end of a painted crate. There is Philadelphia-born Man Ray, who is not only an able painter but manages to imbue Rayograph pictures of bits of wire, corks and lumps of sugar with exactly the eerie quality that surrealists desire. Least concerned with sexual symbolism and one of the most commercially successful of surrealists is genteel...
...Young Archibald Fairley of Dundee, who found stunned upon the ground and nursed back to health a pigeon belonging to King Edward, received as a reward from His Majesty two pigeons which arrived in a crate lettered: "LIVE BIRDS -URGENT-FROM HIS MAJESTY THE KING." ¶A horse of exceptional gentleness named Cherry Grove was discovered in the stable of the Salford mounted police and bought for $750 to become the "charger" which will bear His Majesty through the streets of London on State occasions. Cherry Grove was first elaborately tested in the stableyard of the Metropolitan Police...
...week, in a special car pulled by a special engine. Dr. Ernst's dynamite arrived. Confronted with the difficulty of transporting a package no bigger than a soap box which was nonetheless capable of blowing up a complete train, du Pont had hired a whole boxcar, nailed the crate to the floor in the middle, sealed the doors, plastered the outside with placards screaming EXPLOSIVES! The car was then coupled to a regular freight train, rolled north to Poughkeepsie. No freight train was available to carry the car on to Stanfordville, so it was coupled to an engine which...
...folks, I'd be afraid way out here in the country." Heads turned. A voice came back: "I understand they hunt deer up here between Rows J and K." The answer was cut short by a hammering sound, hollow and staccato, like a hatchet assaulting an orange crate: The 21st Republican National Convention was gaveled to order...