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Picasso's Oriental Deer is delicate and fleet enough to outrun one of Buffon's best rhapsodies. His Grasshoppers-which, like Buffon, he conceives as armored leaping machines-are pictured with the immediacy of a farmer awakening from a nap in the field to find them right under his nose. The vital, trembling Horse looks exactly like what Buffon must have meant when he said horses were "the noblest conquest man has ever made...
...Washington, D.C.), which has never taken football too seriously, abolished it for good. Said American's President Paul F. Douglass: "Postwar college football has no more relation to education than bullfighting to agriculture. ... I see no reason why one corporation should hire a specialized group of employes to outrun, outbump and outbruise the specialized employes of another corporation. ..." A football player, he concluded flatly, is nothing more than "a human slave" caught in the "biggest black-market operation" in the history of higher education...
...service was desperately needed, for science had far outrun popular understanding. Relativity was nearly a generation old, but it had not yet penetrated the thin outer layers of the public mind. The Quantum Theory, perhaps even more important, was even less understood. People needed to know that stars were no longer points in space, but convenient physical laboratories, observed through fantastic instruments. People needed to be told that the atom had fallen apart, had dissolved into lesser particles...
Yale raised $1,682 in a campaign similar to the program last spring at the University which collected $3,400. "Naturally, we are glad that we did better than Yale," Chairman Campbell said, "but we are not pleased to have been so clearly outrun by such schools as Smith, Barnard, and Oberlin, who averaged three times as much as we did, and by Swarthmore, where the college community of 1,100 people contributed an average of $6 per person for European food relief...
...critics-notably Lieut. Colonel Ralph (Top Secret) Ingersoll-began to attack him as a cautious, "political" general. But by inference, he dismisses attacks on his caution, declaring simply that to continue General Patton's armored blitzkrieg across the Rhine before Christmas was impossible. Not only had he outrun his supplies, but there were too many Germans in too good positions on the west bank...