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When British Bridge Stars Terence Reese and Boris Schapiro were accused of cheating at the World Bridge Championship in Buenos Aires last summer, officials decided to let the players' own British Bridge League handle the situation. Now, after a year's study, the league has cleared Reese and Schapiro of the charges, and sent a report to the World Bridge Federation. "It was nothing more than I expected," said Schapiro. It was obviously not what the federation expected. "The verdict," said President Charles Solomon, "is at variance with that of the World Bridge Federation rendered on the scene...
...historian Meyer Schapiro of Columbia University will be the Charles Elliot Norton Professor of Poetry here next year...
...Schapiro will stay in Elliot House during his year at Harvard...
...been on the Columbia faculty for almost 40 years. He has also lectured at the University of London, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Cornell, Indiana and New York University. He will be Slade Professor of Art at Oxford in 1968. Schapiro is noted for his contributions of the study of medieval painting and sculpture and of nineteenth and twentieth century...
...confesses. "I didn't start painting seriously until I was 25." The son of a banker, Motherwell was born in Washington, went to Stanford, Harvard Graduate School, the University of Grenoble, and Oxford in pursuit of a respectable Ph.D. before showing up to study with Art Historian Meyer Schapiro at Columbia. In the face of hardheaded parental disapproval, he had been sketching since childhood. When he showed Schapiro his work, the Columbia scholar sent him along for criticism to the lively circle of French surrealists who had been driven by Hitler to take refuge in the U.S. Motherwell...