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...special features and the syndicated columns that were then coming into vogue. (To this day the Post runs 15 syndicated columns, from Walter Lippmann to Walter Winchell, more than any other U.S. paper, plus no fewer than 35 daily comic strips.) Once, during his purchasing zeal, Meyer noticed general gloom over the standing of the Washington Senators baseball team. He called in Sports Columnist Shirley Povich and asked what was wrong. "It's their pitching," said Povich. Asked Meyer: "Can we buy a pitcher? How much do they cost...
...Terrapins cover themselves with glory: they won 71 games, lost only 13, played five bowl games. It was only natural, therefore, to expect that when Big Jim announced that he had accepted a $15,000 coaching job at the University of North Carolina, Maryland should be plunged in gloom. But the gloom was hardly universal-nor was there cheering at Chapel Hill. At both places, it seemed, students were showing distinct signs of growing up. Said Maryland's undergraduate Diamondback...
...believe in the painted image, Sargent only beguiles it into a momentary suspension of disbelief. And Velasquez' reverent handling of the way light falls on objects becomes mere virtuosity in Sargent. The fortuitous manner in which Sargent's light picks his flowerlike figures out of the gloom smacks more of the theater than of life. Yet when all this has been said, it is true that no painter alive today-with the possible exception of Augustus John -could have carried off half so well what Sargent set out to do. He remains, as the Metropolitan Museum...
...League basketball coaches gazed into their collective crystal yesterday and predicted gloom for the Crimson. The final standings, they say: Dartmouth, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Penn, Harvard and Brown...
Despite the general gloom over taxes, there were bright spots for some. University of Chicago Economist D. Gale Johnson discussed the case of the U.S. farmer: "Personal income tax does not apply to nonmoney income," and farmers have more nonmoney income, e.g., meat, eggs, vegetables, etc., than any other group...