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...winged nude youth, the Spirit of the Arts, who gazed benevolently on sundry French peasants and workers tilling fields, building houses, digging holes and filling them up again. "Any time the Ministers think things are going badly," said the Luxembourg's curator, "all they need to do is lean back and gaze at the ceiling and realize things could be worse...
Wonderful Things. In a little office in Rome, dark-browed, bright-eyed Paladino spoke like a man with a mission. At 42, he is still a lean and impecunious clerk; what his party lacks in funds is made up by individual zeal. "Except for a few hours for eating and sleeping," he says, "I dedicate every minute in which I am free from statistics to the movement...
...mound corps, greatly weakened by the graduation last fall of Jack Wallace, is currently headed by Johnny Knowles. The lean southpaw will be starting his third campaign for the Crimson, having spent the past two years carrying the Jayvees and turning in valuable relief jobs for the varsity on occasion. Other prospects for the pitching staff include Norm Wholley and Dick Morris, with several other candidates also in the running...
...game has been added to the Varsity schedule: the Stahlmen will trek down to Rhode Island for a game with the Quonset Naval Air Station team on April 24. This is the only service team to appear on the schedule this year, in contrast to the lean years of '44 and '45 when almost all games were played against the numerous star-studded training camps and bases in the vicinity...
...then it was about 7:20, and the President had turned back on Pennsylvania Avenue. A lean Navy officer recognized his Commander in Chief, gave him a brisk salute and a casual "Good morning, Mr. President." Salute and greeting were as snappily and casually returned...