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...wife file suit for divorce, but he admitted the truth of rumors that he is likely to retire at the end of this year. "I ain't near the fighter I use to be," he told a newshawk after a round of golf at Detroit's Rackham golf course. "I guess I'se slipped pretty far. Won't know how far until my next fight with Lou Nova in September. If I find then I'se slipped too far, I'll give it all up. Ain't no use goin' on-just...
...golf courses in the U. S., 6,500 are public links-municipally owned or privately operated on a daily-fee basis. Last week, at Detroit's magnificent Rackham Golf Course,* 190 public linksters, survivors of an original entry of 2,601, teed off in the annual U. S. Public Links Championship, world's largest golf tournament...
...Given to the city by the late Millionaire Horace Rackham, original attorney for the Ford Motor Co., who wisely took Ford stock instead of cash for his early services...
...surrealist was Wolfgang Paalen, a Netherlands-born Parisian, whose particular Freudian fairyland looks like an Arthur Rackham landscape that has begun to putrefy. A member of Paris' "younger school" of dream-painters, Surrealist Paalen is fervently opposed to Old Master Salvador Dali. Reason: Dali is getting too much gravy. Glib, stylish and frightening as last year's millinery, Wolfgang Paalen's cobwebby paintings at the Julien Levy Gallery are constructed in a method all his own. Surrealist Paalen smears his canvas with an even coat of white paint, then holds it over a burning candle, gets...
Died. Arthur Rackham, 72, foremost English illustrator, elfin and old-worldish as his quaint, delicately grotesque children, gnomes, hobgobliny trees beloved by readers of fairy tales throughout the English-speaking world; in Limpsfield, Surrey, England...