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...Canadian Nationals placed Tatrallyay in a strong position to make the Canadian Olympic team. Varraljay, Tatrallyay's only real competition last weekend, is not yet a Canadian citizen, which makes him ineligible to represent Canada in the Munich Olympics. Already there are plans in the making for Tatrallyay to intensity his training program with the Olympics in mind...
When he decided to abandon his academic career and paint, Kandinsky moved to Munich and studied there. After the provincialism of Russia, the artists' colony of Schwabing absorbed him. He called it "a spiritual island in the great world." This was in 1897, at the height of the Jugendstil, or Art Nouveau, movement. What Kandinsky go from Art Nouveau was not so much its airy, sinuous quality as its decorative way of filling space: a painting like Landscape near Murnau, as late a; 1909, is full of references to the style with its slow, thick contour of white cloud...
...soon killed in a duel, but he had somehow refined Lola's primitive hunger for sex and power. In Munich, a year after Dujarier's death, she opened the climactic episode of her career by striding unannounced into the study of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, an aging aesthete who had transformed his dowdy Munich into the Florence of the north. When the King asked the lady if her figure was a work of nature or of art, the story goes, Lola snatched up a pair of scissors and ripped open her bodice. "I am bewitched," the King...
...meet of the Spring. 134 colleges have entered teams, and a two-day total of 136 events have been scheduled for the tartan oval at Franklin Field. 6000 athletes are expected to compete, and for a small number the meet will be an important stop on the road to Munich and the Summer Olympics...
...crew going to Munich, Germany this summer will not represent just one rowing team as U.S. crews have in the past. This year, individual carsmen will be picked to go to a training camp where Parker will pick the best rowers to make up the squads...