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...Calmly accepting this announcement, Krishnamurti grew up under their tutelage, became head of their Order of the Star in the East. In 1929, however, he disappointed his disciples by renouncing the Godship they had imposed upon him. Still a practicing Theosophist seer who affects soft, open-collared shirts and flannel slacks, Krishnamurti, now nearing 40, has not lost his persuasive ways. Author Landau says he felt such personal pleasure at meeting Krishnamurti that he permanently lost all desire to smoke...
Residents of Philadelphia's swank Bellevue-Stratford Hotel were agitated last week by what was going on in the ballroom. Some 200 young people, clad in sweat shirts and flannel slacks, kept popping in & out of it at odd hours. They carried funny-looking little paddles. From the ballroom came the sounds of what seemed to be some sort of scuffle...
...onetime art instructor, for a curious canvas entitled The Pale Rider. Apparently having listened to much talk about surrealism, Artist Dickinson did a picture of a morose young woman in a red dress seated on a falling, pedestal by a table loaded with books. A Negro in a grey flannel shirt is pulling a heavy tarpaulin over the whole composition while three white roses fall from the sky. The Pale Rider is disappearing into the sunset. Since the whole is painted with the stodgy technique of a bank president's portrait, the effect is as surprising as would...
Track, like crew, is a sport in which effort never ceases. When winter comes, trackmen pull on flannel drawers, pound away on wooden tracks, move inside to practice only when snow covers the boards. Last week the pick of U. S. runners, hurlers and jumpers, including 18 world-record holders and 14 onetime Olympic team members, crammed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to test their training. The National Amateur Athletic Union championships, always a climax to the indoor season, this year took on ½added significance. Many a youngster decided to show the 100-odd, owl-faced, stiff...
...could begrudge the band this trip, especially considering that its members, in spite of all the entertainment they afford, and all the spirit they arouse, each must contribute $10 dues, and must pay for their own costumes, even unto the last cleaning and pressing of the flannel trousers thereof...