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Surrealist Salvador Dali, a realist about his worldly goods, called the cops to report that his seaside bungalow at Pebble Beach, Calif. had been ransacked. Missing: several suitcase loads of silver, jewelry, furs. Ignored by the burglars: all of Dali's crutch-&-limp-watch paintings...
...Bureau aim was to help students get along under their own power and not provide the academic crutch that had characterized the tutoring establishments. This philosophy was the basis to the recent change from Bureau of Supervisors to Bureau of Study Counsel. Actual help in specific courses was to be reserved for men whose faulty method of work or poor back ground had retarded them or for students who had missed classes because of illness...
cheek Because McDali's crutch has touched...
...Glass Crutch. In Fairbanks, Alaska, a man on crutches hobbled into Hill's cocktail bar, finished two drinks, walked briskly out the door, leaving the crutches behind...
Louise, finding an artificial leg cumbersome (her leg was cut off above the knee), grew up mostly on crutches, which became "almost anatomical." She permits herself "one immodest, extravagant vanity . . . the conviction that no one in the world can handle a pair of crutches better than I." On crutches, she learned to play tennis well enough to beat some of her boy friends and compete in junior tournaments. She also danced (on one crutch), skated, skied, hiked. At Pomona College, she became a skilled horsewoman, captained her class swimming team...