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...chasing April out of Paris' sidewalk cafés last week. And to certify, for the 15 8th year, that spring had really arrived, the Salon opened in Paris' Palais de New York (the erstwhile Palais de Tokyo). It was the usual grab-bag of more and less competent academicians which gallery-goers had learned to expect...
Hopping into their buff-colored roadster, the Ibisites whipped down to the Opera House to grab their namesake. Just as they arrived, one dozen strong, the bird appeared for an instant at the portals of the theatre. Rearing back at the night of the men who had been its master for 63 years, the feathered fowl fied back through the doors and vanished once again
...closest race of the day. In the backstretch Bill Ellis, of Harvard, had the lead and George Finn of Holy Cross was second. Around the turn, mile winner O'Leary turned on the heat but down the stretch it was O'Brien of Harvard who managed to grab the lead and heat out the competition to the tape. His time was 2:2.4. O'Leary was second and Goldstein and Cashman of Rhode Island finished third and fourth...
...years of labor wars, to sit-down strikes and bloody noses, to his noisy emergence as a New Day labor-statesman and labor-economist, to the strike at General Motors which had closed that company tight for 113 days. Last week 38-year-old Walter Reuther made his grab for the presidency of the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers. On the floor of the cavernous, smoky hall, 2,000 delegates fought their way to the mikes and voted...
...Slaughter. Newfoundland swilers are old hands at blasting and nudging their craft clear into the whelping ground. There the barrel man, high in the crow's-nest, spots the whitecoats. The ship runs alongside, the men grab a gaff (a pole with a steel hook on the end) and clamber overside. They race to kill the first whitecoat and bring back its tail to dip it ceremoniously in a glass of rum as a toast to a bumper trip...