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Boycotting last week's auction were the Roman Catholic Brothers of the Christian Schools who have owned and run St. Mary's since 1868. Boycotting it also was St. Mary's chief ornament, wiry Football Coach Edward Patrick ("Slip") Madigan whose Galloping Gaels built their college's fortunes. When Slip Madigan went to St. Mary's from Notre Dame in 1921, the college was as puny as its football team, which had just been overwhelmed by the University of California 127-to-0. From 1924 to last year St. Mary...
...other, taken five years ago by Dr. Erich Salomon, made its first appearance in TIME Inc. publications as does this, taken last month by an enterprising amateur, a young woman who concealed her small camera in her handbag, cutting a hole through which the lens peeped, re sembling an ornament. She practiced shooting from the hip, without using the camera's finder which was inside the purse, before achieving this result...
Because to the British mind a nude woman is not unseemly so long as she is disguised as a lifeless ornament in a fishpond or a Grecian statuet, Britons who want to see a comely naked woman can do so by visiting the "nonstop reviews" at London's Windmill Theatre which for five years have included undressed tableaux...
...husband, who died shortly after their marriage. As close-mouthed about her personal life as she is loquacious about her system, she seldom refers to her widowhood and never to the significance of the nine-strand collar of pearls which for more than 30 years has been her only ornament. Dr. Mensendieck calls the dancing legs of the late Anna Pavlova monstrously disproportioned. Likewise she scorns Tennist Helen Wills Moody's strong right arm, and Max Schmeling's entire musculature. Says she: "Tennis and basketball players coming down from their leaps resemble the comic stance of a drinking...
...detachment of native cavalry gaily caparisoned, two batteries of artillery, a regiment of Arabs and the personal bodyguard of His Exalted Highness who employs for this purpose Sidis from Africa. Instead of cheering the populace prayed and the Nizam of Hyderabad on his Rolls Throne wore not a single ornament or diadem and was not in uniform. As on other days (see cut, p. 20) His Exalted Highness wore an ordinary suit and simple turban...