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Sure, Andy Roddick and his splashy American Express "Mojo" ad campaign got bounced out of the u.s. open. but his clothing sponsor, Lacoste, had a great tournament. The little green crocodile not only showed up on tennis togs of French pros like Richard Gasquet and Natalie Dechy but was also worn by celebs and many upmarket fans who descended on Flushing Meadows...
...dishes is so grandly solid, while the plates themselves tilt just enough to convey an underlying peril. The relationships in a still life were as infinite to Cezanne as those in a landscape: "These glasses, these plates, they talk among themselves," he wrote to his friend Joachim Gasquet. "Interminable disclosures...
...Significance. Author Hackett's Henry is immense. Others who have written biographically of the gigantic, simpleminded, "red-tempered," go-getter king include: Froude (hero worship in magnificent prose); Gasquet (colored with religious emotion); H. A. L. Fisher (fairly, in The Political History of England, vol. 6). And there is the monumental Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, 21 vols., a work of 50 years, deep mine of source material. Author Hackett used these and many another book and record. He worked on his biography over a period of six years. It has the best of material (perhaps...
Died. Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet, 83, one of two English Cardinals,* Librarian of the Vatican; of pneumonia and heart disease; at his residence in the Palace of Saint Calixtus, Rome. Great in erudition, Cardinal Gasquet had spent 22 years revising the Vulgate Bible, a task for which he wished 50 years...
...humility of this utterance is in keeping with the character of Dr. Edgar Johnson Goodspeed. Gracious, energetic, perhaps a trifle over-imbued with the onward-and-upward-and-quickly attitude of his University, Dr. Goodspeed is a type infinitely removed from the majestically conservative Roman Catholic, Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet. They have, however, a common quality. To both belongs the same shining desire; both share the same endless and splendid crusade to discover, scuffled somewhere in a dusty place, God's word in a golden grail...