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Holes & Lumps. Ritchie's show begins with some of the early giants: Auguste Rodin's skin-smooth St. John the Baptist. with its supple lines and easy Renaissance grace; Arietide Maillol's pensive Mediterranean, heavier and thicker; Constantin Brancusi's early abstractions. All the abstractions of the '20s and '30s, says Ritchie, flowed out of the work and theory of those three men. Rodin used to say that sculpture was merely "the hole and the lump"; his admirers carried the idea to a ruthlessly literal conclusion...
Bombs not intended for cramming into a shell are probably heavier and bulkier for the sake of explosive efficiency, but even bombs to be dropped from planes may be made small and light. A B-36 on an intercontinental mission could carry not one but 50 or more such lightweight bombs...
Teaming with him at inside tackle is John Maher, an inch, taller and ten pounds heavier. The guards are Tom Jones, one of the many Pennsylvania boys on the squad, and Bill Meigs...
Even in West Virginia's Kanawha County, where corrupt elections are no surprise, the primary last May was a standout. The minute the Charleston Gazette (circ. 86,500) saw the returns, it smelled fraud. Many precincts in the capital's county showed a far heavier vote than could be expected from the size of the registrations. City Editor Harry G. Hoffman set two reporters, Charles R. Armentrout and James A. Hill, to work looking for the buried bodies...
...short commercial life, titanium has been tagged "the wonder metal." As strong as steel, it weighs only half as much; heavier than aluminum, it is twice as strong. It doesn't rust; it becomes tougher under high temperatures, and is more resistant to steam erosion than any other construction material. But titanium also has some major flaws: it costs $5 a Ib. in the raw state, is hard to fabricate, and production is only 1,400 tons a year...