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...last fortnight, when the French Academy elected its latest "immortal," the usual storm in a teacup overflowed into the saucer. Successful candidate was 70-year-old, deaf, withered Charles Maurras, expert on Provengal dialect, author of innumerable, little-read novels, poems, philosophical and political studies. Maurras' election precipitated a scandal, not because he was a worse writer than several other "immortals," but because his election marks the most stinging slap in the face that the Republic has yet taken from French Royalists. Royalists dominate the Academy, but Maurras' Royalism is in a class by itself-it goes back...
...usual, an advance guard of several hundred swallows winged in from the ocean, circled the Mission, flew back to sea. Happy at that yearly signal were the Mission brothers engaged in digging and watering a big mudhole from which the birds would draw material to repair their hard-baked, saucer-shaped nests. Next dawn a crowd gathered on the Mission grounds, all eyes peering out to sea. Sure enough, sharp at 5:56 a. m., 40 minutes after sunrise, a lowering cloud appeared on the horizon, grew bigger and bigger until it all but blotted out the Mission sunlight, making...
...into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week to witness the 59th International Six-Day Bicycle Race. Not to be mesmerized by the whirring tires, not to cheer for representatives of their own race did goggle-eyed addicts stare hour after hour, night & day at the pine-board saucer. It was, for most of them, the hope of being startled by the impact of wheels, the slither of tangled bodies on the track...
...teams in the race. In the last hour, with three teams tied in mileage, the pedaling became furious. Vopel went sprawling at the end of the fourth sprint, gamely remounted in seven minutes. Then he and Kilian put on the pressure. Throwing aside all caution, they zipped around the saucer, matching every effort of Letourner and his new partner Brocardo. Their daring won them 14 of the 27 final sprints, added 72 points to their total every time. Though tied in mileage (2,477 miles and seven laps) with two other pairs, Newcomers Vopel & Kilian had amassed 1,400 points...
...crap game big drunken Crown kills Robbins and over the corpse all Catfish Row bows before death, keening and shrieking its laments, tossing coins into a saucer to assure a burial safe from medical students. Gershwin's choruses are richly eloquent then, as they are later on when a hurricane shivers the tenements and the Negroes herd together like terror-stricken savages, hearing what they think is God. knocking at the door. Critics roundly approved such moments which had the surge of a powerful musical drama. But :here were bristling arguments over many of the set songs for which...