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...fighting was still scattered and sporadic. On the Arab side, Egyptians (in the southern desert) and Syrians and Iraqis (in Galilee) were most active. Abdullah's Arab Legion, the only force likely to cause Israel serious trouble, had done little but engage in an artillery and mortar duel with Jewish forces in Jerusalem. In a night attack the Jews won Lydda Airport, biggest in Palestine. Later they captured, after surprisingly feeble Arab resistance, the towns of Lydda and Ramleh, and threatened Arab positions blocking the lifeline road to Jerusalem. Abdullah's Arab Legion had not yet launched...
...wartime work. Goats, nymphs, centaurs, children and satyrs, drawn loosely in dancing lines or painted with soft smears of cool color, sang and played pipes, swam, fished, ate dinner and slept under the trees. The one warlike note was a comic-strip series of sketches showing a duel between centaurs, which ended with the loser crumpled across a broken arrow and the horned winner looking downcast. The figures were almost all distorted, but never cruelly so. The surprising twists of their bodies seemed to spring from inner drunkenness rather than artistic rage. Picasso had pulled and twisted their limbs like...
...that he has provided the plot for an extremely complicated movie. Incidentally, the letter starts: "By the time you get this I will probably be dead," which is enough to shake a stronger man's nerve. His conscience hurts him, so he goes out to fight the duel with her husband from which he had been planning to run before he read the letter. The moral of this decision is not quite clear, but one gets the impression that he spent so much time reading the letter that he missed his train. Presumably he gets killed, but the audience never...
...spring and last week he won the Penn Relays hammer throw at about 171 feet. He may scare Sam Felton into hitting 180 feet today. Felton broke the Harvard record two weeks ago with a shot of 175 feet, 2 inches. This competition, plus the Kimball versus Pat McCormick duel in the 120 high and 220 low hurdles should provide the most spectator interest this afternoon...
...innings yesterday afternoon, on a cold, dreary Soldiers Field, the varsity baseball team and Boston College waged a close, well-fielded duel. But in the seventh frame, Ira Godin ceased to be a mystery to the power-laden bunch of D.C. hitters that he had held to single runs in the first two innings...