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...brink of ruining 1) the world in general and 2) Al Capp in particular. In such moods his conversation often implies that he is a sort of modern General Custer, facing hordes of murderous madmen and cut off from civilization with no weapon more deadly than India ink...
...second-division finishes. In Philadelphia this year, nearly everybody went out to watch Eddie Sawyer's Whiz Kids win the National League pennant. Connie Mack's last-place A's drew only 310,129 fans; that added up to about half a million dollars in red ink...
Despite his 87 years, Connie Mack, finishing his 50th year as Philadelphia manager, could read the red ink without spectacles. And though financial control of his club had been vested in his sons, Earle and Roy, "Mr. Mack" could still make a decision. Last week, he made the hardest one of his life: he stepped aside. Then he named Coach Jimmy Dykes as the new manager. Said Connie firmly: "I am not quitting because I'm too old. I am quitting because I think the people want me to quit." Still president of the A's, Connie added...
...Pablo Picasso's pen & ink Nude Woman with Raised Arms was sketched in 1909, when the artist had already proved himself a master of academic drawing, and got bored with it. African carvings gave him a new departure: they substituted corners for classical curves and punch for prettiness. Picasso applied their principles to his Montmartre models, but he kept a respect for the realities of the human figure which the Africans never had. His Bergamo sketch was a tense, ebony-hard construction, half model and half idol. With such rough-cut works, Picasso had served notice that he preferred...
...Georges Rouault's Nude had been done with just a few swirls of a heavily loaded ink brush. Her head was heavy and rough as rock, her breasts were like sheep's eyes, her puny thighs terminated in doughnut knees. But the picture's very crudeness gave it drama. Backed into a dark corner, the body was startlingly white. At first glance the brush work might seem clumsy as a calligraph drawn in a Chinese kindergarten, but it made space of the flat paper, and crammed it with fat, interlocked sausages of light...