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...enjoy his masterpiece himself, hung it in an upstairs room and admired it daily. Publicly shown for the first time in 1929, it was hailed as a brilliant "expressionist" picture foreshadowing the works of Max Beckmann and Paul Klee. Connoisseurs clustered around the picture like cattle at a salt lick, but while he lived, Ensor refused to part with it. Last week it went for $40.000 to an Ostend casino proprietor named Gustave Nellens...
...Town is written in pioneer idiom; sometimes it gets to be a strain watching Richter strain for colorful expressions. But when he succeeds, they're good, e.g., "You wouldn't reckon to look at her she could read a lick, but she'd turn the old page and suck out the meaning of the new like a bird pulling out a worm...
...suspects that the average man gets too much sleep, and claims that four or five hours a night is about right for himself. He is seldom, if ever, sick. He considers the onset of a common cold a personal affront, and has a theory that the way to lick it is to stay up and fight it. These attributes have had an astonishing effect on Boyd's staff. They may not quite have Boyd's bounce at the end of a 14-to 1 6-hour closing day, but they usually manage to keep up the pace...
This led to a rumor that Harry Truman wanted Bob Taft to win and thus remain a leading G.O.P. presidential candidate: the one candidate the President felt certain he could lick, hog-tied and blindfolded, in 1952. On a trip to Ohio, Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle piously denied the rumor. Last week Harry Truman predicted, in equally pious tones, that the Democrats would carry Ohio. Taft's probable opponent, one Joseph T. ("Jumping Joe") Ferguson, an amiable political mediocrity who is state auditor, cried that he would massacre his foe. But the winter book money was on Taft...
...easy, amphibious stride when one horse drifted wide, carrying Citation out with him. For a while it looked like a repetition of the race two years ago at Havre de Grace, when an unknown named Saggy handed Citation one of his two defeats in 30 starts. But one lick of Jockey Steve Brooks's whip shot Citation into the lead. He coasted down the stretch like a champion, ears pricked forward, and won by a length and a half. His time for the six furlongs: a creditable...