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Giving Caesar the benefit of an elevated takeoff, the experimenters first launched him with lead weights totaling two pounds attached to his feet. His flight was "normal, effortless, playful." When the weights were increased to four pounds his flights were shorter, obviously strained, and there were no dips, glides, circles. Eight pounds Caesar could not handle at all. Though he "beat the air wildly" he flew only 30 or 40 ft. before flumping to earth...
...winter, racing fans have been buzzing about Bimelech. Those who saw him race last year could not forget the effortless ease with which he floated in front of his contemporaries, winning all six of his starts-including all three two-year-old classics, Hopeful Stakes, Belmont Futurity and Pimlico Futurity. In the Kentucky Derby future books, more than 50% of the money wagered went on Bimelech's nose...
Died. Luisa Tetrazzini, 68, most sensational coloratura soprano of opera's Golden Age, whose effortless bell-clear high F# made musical history; after a long illness complicated by grippe; in Milan. She never recovered from a cerebral hemorrhage last February, and for several days before her death was able to take no nourishment except an occasional sip of champagne...
...that his career really began. His column, It Seems to Me, ran for 18 years, first in the World, then in Scripps-Howard's Telegram, later in the World-Telegram, when Publisher Howard merged the two papers in 1931. But in all of them it was informal, effortless, personal. A man of tremendous heart and unfailing kindness, Broun was led by his sympathies first into Socialism, then to the brink of Communism, though he never actually joined the Communist Party...
...Picasso's portrait of "Fernand Olivier," and find in the treatment of line and the philosophic calm an unmistakable declaration of indebtedness to some of the Chinese artists whose works are exhibited on the floor below. Subtle variations in the width and shape of lines, together with the apparently effortless rendition of form by means of this mode, serve to bring out clearly one phase of Picasso's electicism. Despite the fact that no single part of Picasso's career can be strictly called an "Oriental Period," most of his paintings and drawings embody the abstract delicacy of the East...