Word: marcel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Collecting Art & Artists. Peggy did not become seriously interested in modern art until 1937, when she was 39. To learn what it was all about she went to see Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp. "Every woman in Paris wanted to sleep with him," she confides. "His particular vice was ugly mistresses." Duchamp passed her on to Sculptor Hans Arp, "an excellent poet and a most amusing man. . . . The first thing I bought for my collection was an Arp bronze...
Before last week's big Wanamaker Mile, France's happy-go-lucky Marcel Hansenne thought: "Why should I spend so much effort when I could be leading an easy life? I must be a fool to run." It was his first race in the U.S., his first indoors, his first taste of a hardboard track. Marcel ran, but the effort he spent was not enough...
...milers, Les MacMitchell. The 150-lb. Frenchman ran with feather-footed ease, his arms high, no pumping. He arranged to have fractional times called in French - 2:12.4 at the half, tantalizingly slow for Madison Square Garden's fast track. Suddenly, with the finish almost in sight, Marcel ran out of gas, wound up third, 12 yards back of MacMitchell. Time...
Twinkle-eyed, 29-year-old Marcel Han senne, a journaliste, never intended to be a runner. He took up basketball, found his endurance surprisingly strong, turned to running. But he still wonders how he became France's middle-distance champion...
...foreign threat was Marcel Hansenne, France's ace miler, who this week landed in Manhattan, was dead set for a Feb. 2 unveiling in the Millrose mile...