Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things go the way they've been going all year, the Jayvee baseball team should return from New Haven tomorrow with a victory in its season finale. Warren Berg's Freshman outfit seems doomed to end its campaign on a more dour note...
...pleased to note that in the story on the Calumet horse, Coaltown, TIME [April 19] admitted that the Derby is only Kentucky's greatest race...
...whom Picasso sent that note (in 1936) lost no sleep over it. Jaime Sabartés, devoted as a friend, and fairly humble as a secretary to Picasso, knew that Pablo didn't really mean it, though he may have thought he did. Picasso was apt to do things like that in one of his blue periods...
...Sabartés filed the note away, along with scraps of dialogue by the master, and embedded them all in Picasso: An Intimate Portrait (Prentice-Hall; $5), a book out this week. Sabartés evidently thinks that every detail and every chit of paper involving the artist is of equal value; his Portrait is loaded with pointless details about Picasso's living arrangements, his day-to-day existence and his favorite cafés. But the dull stretches are offset by Picasso's remembered obiter dicta. Samples...
Hosier's explanation: lowered atmospheric pressure encourages the flow of gas out of the coal. If the increase is too much for the fans to handle, in poorly ventilated mines, the gas may accumulate until it forms an explosive mixture. He thinks that mine operators should take careful note of the weather and warn their miners to be especially careful when the pressure begins to fall...