Word: nones
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members recorded a full year of earth rumblings. They also charted temperatures, magnetic variations, the intensity of cosmic rays, the rise & fall of tides (average change: 4 ft.), atmospheric refraction that makes distant icebergs seem to dangle in the air. They found traces of coal, copper and uranium (but none worth mining at present), collected evidence that one continent has been slowly rising as its ice cap melts...
...fact, there have been some noble tries. There have been court tennis players who used champagne bottles for bats, or played the game while riding ponies. And an 18th Century Frenchman went so far as to serve while crouched in a barrel, returning to the barrel between strokes. None of these refinements lasted: the game was baffling enough...
...last week in Manhattan, Pierre stepped briskly into Park Avenue's exclusive Racquet & Tennis Club. Though he is the world's champ, he is also the club's court tennis pro, which puts him in the class of hired help. (Court tennis is a game that none but kings, millionaires and their friends can afford.) He responded respectfully to members' greetings (they called him "Pierre"; he called them "mister") and changed into flannels and sneakers. Since he became open champion in London 20 years ago, he had been challenged only twice before. Challenger No. 3: Sandy...
...were characteristically impressive. Unique item: a 195-ft.-long painting of Calvary by Polish Artist Jan Styka, said to contain 5,000 figures. Location: the Hollywood-serving, super de luxe convertible graveyard, Forest Lawn Memorial-Park (where it will replace the "Tower of Legends," a landmark since 1924). Denomination: none...
...born in Paris in 1900 was to become Novelist Julian Green, an expatriate American who has written his moody psychological novels in French. Sister Anne Green, who never married, has also spent her life in France but writes her deft, frothy novels in English. With engaging candor and none of the moodiness of her famed brother, she tells in With Much Love the story of the family's first 21 years in France. Few books of family reminiscences have been written with such obvious joy and communicate so much of it to the reader...