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Boxers less wily than Walcott have no trouble hitting Rocky; he stumbles straight against their mitts. The poser is to hurt him. Hit hard, he merely frowns and keeps coming, and swinging, and missing. He windmills like an earnest apprentice, until sooner or later he lands one or two and becomes the brutal master. Then he drubs them. New England has not produced such a punisher since (in Vachel Lindsay's drumbeat lines...
...Mainly through color, Cézanne recreated the deep sunny space of L'Estaque, a canvas which combines the repose of a pyramid with the lightness of air. Through color he made Madame Cézanne look fixed and solid as a newel post (she was a patient poser but a flighty creature, seldom home), and made the ineptly drawn Bathers a warm evocation of leisurely summer bliss...
...solution. The Steelworkers' demands for increased wages and benefits (variously estimated at from 30? to 50? an hour) will go next week before the Wage Stabilization Board. There it will be up to Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam to find the final answer to a three-horned poser: 1) Phil Murray's determination to get more of an increase than present wage stabilization policies allow; 2) Big Steel's determination to yield nothing to labor without a steel price increase; and 3) the obvious fact that a break in the wage & price line for steel will...
...best he could get from the club owners in Miami Beach this week was nine-the same as last time around (TIME, Dec. 25). The other seven major-league clubs, led by the Cardinals' Fred Saigh, seemed to have won the fight for a new commissioner. The poser was: Who? The owners have until 1952 to settle the problem. They handed the screening job to a committee, told the committee to "take all the time necessary...
Around London's Fleet Street last week went a story of how the Soviet government wished to commemorate Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. They opened a competition for Soviet sculptors to submit designs for a memorial. Most efforts depicted the com poser seated at a piano or working on a score. The winning design: a twelve-foot-high bronze figure of Stalin, listening - to the music of Tchaikovsky...