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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the Mediterranean ("bluer than ever this year") drew its quota from the Paris office, Correspondent William Chapman chose to seclude himself in a rented room and terrace of an 11th Century tower on a river near Tours. Bureau Chief Charles Wertenbaker, en route to the Basque coast ("my favorite place in the world"), tarried in Spain for his favorite spectator sport, bullfighting, and was so moved that he turned out a report of what he saw for TIME (July...
...Fleshed Off." As the 19th Century drew to a close, the Shakers made few converts. The journals kept by each "family" began to record more & more cases of individuals (and couples) who "wormed out" or "fleshed off" to taste the pleasures of the world. Sister Sadie Neale and the handful of others who are left know that Mother Ann's valiant experiment is over. But they are confident that some time, somewhere, it will rise again, as Sister Sadie says, "in some other form." Meanwhile, they are living out the rest of their lives as Mother Ann told them...
...Birmingham, they drew 1,200 customers (400 more than the pro troupe of Tilden, Budge & Co. drew last year). Early in the tour, Sarah showed the effect of being out of competition a year. She won only four of the first twelve matches, was unable to match Pauline's energetic retrieving and superlative backhand. But business was good and both girls had fun. In a Buick convertible, their only big capital investment for the tour, they drove from Houston to Milwaukee to Chicago to Kalamazoo...
...been 23 years since Poet Andre Breton rattled the saucers in Left Bank cafes with his "First Manifesto of Surrealism," a compound of Freudianism and calculated nonsense. In those days, Marcel Duchamp (who drew U.S. catcalls in 1913 with his Nude Descending the Staircase) got high critical acclaim when he filled a birdcage full of marble cubes, stuck in a thermometer, and entitled it Why Not Sneeze? Duchamp and Breton had worked together for months assembling the screwy props for last week's screwy show...
...Turner ranch, and down into the second and third generations, Old 81st's descendants added more glory to his name. One of his sons, T. Royal Rupert 60th, drew a cash offer -refused-of $60,000. A great-grandson, Del Zento I, sold last year for a record price of $51,000 (TIME, Jan. 14, 1946). All told, Old 81st's descendants were valued at well over...