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...bicycle trip is one of the best ways of satisfying the idle curiosity everyone has about his environs. The cyclist can see things and places in Boston and Cambridge that the driver overlooks, and he can get a lot closer to these things and places...
Take the case of the Quincy Street Bicycling Ordinance, for instance. Chief Randall of the University Police has decreed that his officers will apprehend and punish any cyclist who travels in a direction other than south an Quincy. The decree has been issued at the instigation of Dean Rogers who apparently has become quite nervous from the experience of driving south, as he does every morning on the way to his Quincy Street office, into squadrons of northbound cyclists...
Flagman Curli had just heard what seemed to him vitally important news: Cyclist Masetti had just become a father, and in the excitement of the moment, it seemed to Curli that father Masetti deserved to know at once. The officials made the only decision really possible: the race had ended where the flagman stopped it. That gave the race to Duke, but the world title to Masetti, on points...
With the confidence and skill of a high-wire cyclist, Max Liebman each week whips together a 28-man, 1½ hour musical revue called Your Show of Shows (Sat. 9 p.m., E.S.T., NBC-TV). This week, 48-year-old Producer-Director Liebman displays his real virtuosity by riding two vehicles at once: he is putting on another 1½-hour musical, the Easter special Star-Spangled Revue (Sun. 5:30 p.m., E.S.T., NBC-TV), sponsored by Frigidaire and featuring Bob Hope, Beatrice Lillie, Dinah Shore and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., plus his own company...
After his return to France in 1945, Léger continued his cyclist series with Les Loisirs ("Leisure"-see cut), which was one of the hits of his Paris show. As stiffly posed as a daguerreotype, the painting echoed Léger's early days as a retoucher as well as the paintings of the granddaddy of Paris primitives, Le Douanier Rousseau. Les Loisirs came as close to nature as anything Léger had done for years; he even painted the sky blue instead of dark red as he had first intended. Even so, its handsomeness was like...