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...Said DeMars: "If I could sit in a chair behind the pitcher's mound and just tell him not to get nervous, he'd be a major leaguer right now." As for Steve Dalkowski, he wanted only to live down his own legend. "It's no picnic," he said, "watching every other batter walk to first...
...Florence" went on display. It was, said Batini, "Florence behind the fagade," and it turned out to be a spilled cornucopia of ancient masterpieces and oddments. There was everything from brilliant primitive paintings to snuff boxes shaped like glass slippers, 14th century Tuscan ceramics and the red-fringed picnic basket that an 18th century Corsini cardinal once took into the Vatican conclave from which he emerged, basket on arm, as Pope Clement XII. The Serristori loaned their priceless illuminated manuscripts, as well as two elaborately decorated Renaissance trays once used to carry water to noblewomen in labor. A plate bearing...
...team of Russian spacemen and a team of American spacemen, all moon-based, were doing their best to make the first voyage to Mars-all in the spirit of Camp David, with vodka toasts and lots of mir i druzhba ("We will meet on Mars and have a picnic...
...responsible leader, while the Democrats were grabbing most of the headlines in primary campaigns. His technique: a series of calculated, noncontroversial public appearances before as many people as possible. Early last week he turned up to talk about the spirit of freedom and independence before a gigantic Polish-American picnic in Chicago. He hopped back to Washington to preside over the Senate. Then he was off to work his way through the vast U.S. World Trade Fair in Manhattan's Coliseum, where he could hardly see the exhibits for the swarm of reporters and photographers that buzzed around...
John Sloan, who is usually tagged as a leading practitioner of the Ashcan School, was on vacation from realism in Picnic on the Ridge. On a glorious night near Santa Fe, a group of artists gathers round a picnic fire. Sloan himself is in profile, holding a coffee cup. His wife kneels just behind him. He summered in Santa Fe, but Sloan worked in Greenwich Village and became a sort of guardian spirit of its artists. Once, from the top of Washington Square Arch, he went so far as to proclaim the Village an independent republic...