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Born in Hungary, Sepeshy came to the U.S. in 1921, spent some ten years house painting, lumber stacking and window dressing, finally married a girl "as blonde and as genuine as a sand dune," and discovered to his surprise that he could make a living and even support a family (two children) by teaching art. Now he heads the Department of Painting at Michigan's progressive Cranbrook Academy. It was a teacher who gave Sepeshy his first incentive to become an artist. "If I hadn't wanted to 'show' that drawing teacher who had flunked...
Auden is settled for the summer on Fire Island-off New York's Long Island -where he owns a tar-paper-covered shack near a sand dune. On one wall of his littered study Poet Auden keeps an immense map of Alston moor in Cumberland below the Roman Wall, his childhood country, whose limestone quarries, fells and valleys-and mining machinery -have persisted as bleakly beautiful imagery in all his work...
...Bengal rowing qualities have fallen mightily since last year, when the Tigers presented the sole threat to Harvard's Eastern supremacy. In two races so far this year they have bowed to little Rutgers and a high-stroking Navy eight. 165-pound starboard stroke Dune Pitney is again pacing the Princetonians, but he doesn't seem to have the necessary power behind him to raise the Orange and Black much above the class of Tech and Syracuse, both of which failed to come within three lengths of the flying Crimson last Saturday...
Following an extremely fast track down the precipitous pitches of the Cal. Ferner was clocked at 2:23 and 2:24.8. Tom Winship made eleventh place. Dune Reid and Will Cochran clinched thirteenth and fourteenth. The others, Bill Apthorp, Rog Wilson, and Braley Cameron didn't finish in the first...
Onslow Beach was whipped with rain and the breakers were capped with white when Task Force 18 began its exercises one night. On a high-topped dune "Howlin' Mad" Smith stood with his staff, scanning the sea through night glasses. Through the scud a signal light blinked in code: "Execute...