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...three Eastern League contests, Columbia has failed to lose by less than 47 points, and the only two events the Lions have won were in a loss to Army before vacation. Homer Lane, the best sprinter in Columbia history, won the 200-free in 1:54.0, and Bob Schliehauf was first in the breaststroke with a 2:28.8 clocking. Schliehauf, the team's captain, was actually second, but Army had stated beforehand that the man who eventually won was swimming for practice...
...disappointed with the receivers this year, but many feel that Burroughs is a bright exception. "Burroughs not only has sticky hands," notes a scout, "he can run the 100 in 9.4 sec. He has all the qualifications of a top pro receiver. He could turn out to be another Homer Jones...
...Metropolitan Museum buys Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer for $2,300,000 at public auction...
...share in the revenues or profits. These expedients are not available to home buyers or local government units that must sell bonds, and some authorities think that much more radical changes in the markets will be required if they are to raise the cash that they need. Sidney Homer and Economist Henry Wallich, among others, have seriously suggested that mortgage and bond issuers may have to pay variable interest rates tied to movements in consumer prices. Some experts also expect a swing from long to short-term financing. There are signs of that happening already. Executives of Hawaiian Electric...
American Painting: From its Beginnings to the Armory Show by Jules David Prown; The Twentieth Century by Barbara Rose. 269 pages. 2 vols. Skira. $50. How and why American art developed from West and Copley through Homer and Ryder to Pollock, De Kooning and Warhol. With anecdotes about each painter, these companion volumes provide a wieldy and informative analysis of art technique in relation to the nation's history...