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...Painting," Marcel Gromaire believes, "is a matter of long research and patient waiting." At 58, the pipe-smoking, professorial Frenchman is suspicious of modern art, thinks it includes too many "new movements." He does most of his work at a massive oak table in a quiet, residential district of southern Paris, making pen sketches for future paintings. For every 50 or so sketches, he does one watercolor. Every few years he produces enough paintings to have a show like last week's at Paris' Louis Carré Gallery...
...Slivers of this wood are still preserved and venerated in shrines throughout Christendom. In the Middle Ages, the hawking of spurious slivers became a scandal, and it was largely to reassure the faithful that a 19th Century Frenchman, Rohault de Fleury, devoted years to measuring the certified pieces still in existence. Their volume, according to De Fleury, was only 4,000 cubic centimeters, or about 2% of the probable volume of the cross...
...fluke 15 months ago from the late Marcel Cerdan (TIME, June 27, 1949), who fought, after the first round, with the handicap of a torn shoulder muscle. In Detroit, where Jake had the luck to win his title, he defended it last week against Frenchman Laurent Dauthuille. Jake was lucky again...
...rounds La Motta worked like a man in a doze: his footwork was sluggish, his left, normally sharp and stabbing, had neither punch nor pep. Twice the referee had to step in to tell Jake to fight. In the 14th round, the Frenchman jarred him with a right cross that almost floored the 29-year-old champion for the first time in his ring career...
...during the last three months had drowned some 4,000,000 sheep, disrupted transport of the clip to the market. When Auctioneer J. L. Brassil asked for bids on a lot of grease wool (i.e., raw wool) that would have brought 91? a Ib. only two months ago, a Frenchman quickly offered $1.12, lost out to a Briton who got it for $1.32. Said Auctioneer Brassil: "Never did I dream of such prices . . ." The average: 94?, v. 60? last season...