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DIED. Howard Schenken, 75, champion contract bridge player and theorist; of a brain tumor; in Palm Springs, Calif. Abandoning billiards for bridge when he was in his 20s, Schenken played on four world-title teams and won a record five Life Master Pair Championships during his 50-year career, as well as devised such now standard game practices as the prepared opening bid, the weak two-bid and the forcing two-over-one response...
...aged 68, but his work continues to serve its modern audience rather as the sultans of Victorian academic painting, the Friths and Poynters and Alma-Tademas, served theirs a century ago-as storytellers. Modern art was supplied with mythmakers, from Picasso to Barnett Newman. But it had few masters of the narrative impulse, and Magritte, a stocky, taciturn Belgian, was its chief fabulist. His images were stories first, paintings second, but the stories were not narratives in the Victorian manner, or slices of life or tableaux of history. They were snapshots of the impossible, rendered in the dullest and most...
...Wacker, associate master of South House, said yesterday she has no objection to fences on the Quad as long as they are temporary...
...There is the argument that publicity has more effect than facts," J. Woodland Hastings, master of North House, said last week, adding "we'll just have to wait and see what it does to the numbers...
Wednesday, March 7--Theater: "Spoon River Anthology," Edgar Lee Master's work presented by Charles Aidmen and directed by Theodore Kazanoff. Springold Theater, 8 p.m. All seats reserved at $4.25. Call 894-4343 for information...