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...dramatize this point, Manhattan's publicity-wise Museum of Modern Art was staging a show last week that paired ancient distortions with modern distortions-and implied that both were good. A paleolithic fetish 77,000 years old and shaped like a bunch of grapes made Gaston Lachaise's blimpish Standing Woman (1932) look a comparatively svelte great-granddaughter. A Canaanite idol dated 1000 B.C. seemed a more attenuated ancestor of Wilhelm Lehmbruck's Standing Youth, done in 1913 (see cuts). The horse in Picasso's Guernica was no more or less weird than the deerhead mask...
Three days later, at his own favorite distance-5,000 meters-he finished two-tenths of a second behind Belgium's Gaston Reiff. Both Reiff and Zatopek broke the previous Olympic record...
...urgent, unreasoning hope spread. Said a Greek government official: "This may mean the end of the civil war." Said the Manchester Guardian: ". . . An act of statesmanship." In Paris, Canard Enchainé kidded happily: "General de Gaulle has sent a message to Maurice Thorez, saying the door remains wide open . . . Gaston Palewski [one of the general's chief aides] has stated he is ready to engage in conversations with Jacques Duclos' chambermaid . . ." Newsboys brandished their headlines like victorious flags. "No more cold war," cried Franc-Tireur, "the ice is broken...
...occurred to him that radio had no adequate showcase for-or interest in-rural America; even Hooperatings are taken only in the larger cities.So he asked John Lewellen, the Quiz Kids' program director, to work up a proper show. Lewellen, who was raised on a farm near Gaston, Ind., sent his parents out over the R.F.D.s of rural America to drum up interest and recruit performers...
After missing at least ten shots in the first few minutes of play, the Varsity got its first score when Roy Heisler, Crimson center forward, sank one from the left side of the goal. Gaston Ascarraga booted in the second goal just after the second period opened and five minutes later Heisler scored again on a pass from the wing...