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Calders have been artists for four generations-his great-great-grandfather, a funeral mason from Aberdeen in Scotland, helped carve the Albert Memorial in London before settling in Philadelphia in 1868. But Alexander Calder, looking at 78 like a rumpled dugong in a red flannel shirt, belongs to a hallowed American type: the bike-shop genius, cousin to Henry Ford or Wilbur Wright. Except for the big commissions of the past 20 years, his sculpture is still mostly improvisation-tin-snips and pliers stuff, made in his studios in Connecticut and the south of France...
...Whose Asian cousin, the dugong, is believed to have inspired ancient sailors to spin the first mermaid yarns...
...dugong is a ludicrous-looking aquatic mammal that nurses its young at its breast. Sighting these strange creatures centuries ago. sailors plowing Asian seas came home claiming that they had seen women with tails like fish-and thereby started the mermaid legend. Modern scientists paid deference to the legend of the sea sirens by assigning the dugong to the order Sirenia. See SCIENCE, The Useful Manatee...
...Eugenie the Dugong, who later turned out to be Eugene, died of pneumonia six weeks after arriving in San Francisco...
September. Truman will spear a coelacanth and a dugong. Dewey says he will run if Truman does. The White House ground crew will begin construction of a tennis court where the driving range once stood. Back in Cambridge, the HAA will adopt a new ticket distributing plan which is based upon "free enterprise or tickets go to the highest bidder." Ex-President Pusey will deny that he is a ghostwriter for Billy Graham. Pusey will declare, "I don't believe in ghosts...