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...most of every other in devising offensive and defensive formations that will hamstring the opposition. The briefcase he takes home every night means at least as much work as the average professorial green bag, but the results are published in the Sunday headlines rather than an obscure monograph. If the other team has shifted its strategy, there's always the opportunity for changing Crimson tactics in the 30 minutes between the halves. That, incidentally, is why Harvard is generally a second-half team. Revised blocking assignments against Princeton and the different defense against Brown were far more effective than...
Painter Duchamp, who once entered a shovel in an exhibition with an elaborate essay on its artistic import, plans to get himself a little studio, paint "if I can get a new idea." Meantime he is working on his "Monograph." It consists of a collection in cardboard boxes of reproductions of his works since 1910. Eventually he intends to bind the boxes in beautiful leather cases...
Charles F. Brooks, to prepare for publication a third volume entitled "Climate and Weather of Puerto Rice and the Virgin Islands," and to publish a monograph entitled "Filter Measurements of Solar Radiation at Blue Hill Observatory...
...more revealing report on Count Teleki came from the typewriter of Columnist Dorothy Thompson, to whom last year he gave a monograph he had written on the structure of European nations. (He had once been a professor of geography.) At that time he said of Transylvania: "I would rather wait another generation than get it by grace of the Germans." But Teleki had no choice. Columnist Thompson asked him: "What will you do if the Germans insist on using Hungary as a base for operations against another State?" He replied: "It will be Hungary's historic catastrophe...
...with Darwin, found a way to raise figs in California, got Sequoia National Park created to save the big trees), archeologist (he dug up weighty evidence to prove that the Chalice of Antioch was Sir Galahad's Grail), author (he published some no works, the last a huge monograph on Mesopotamian Cylinder-Seals); in Manhattan...