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...paintings." His now famed works suggested the bright but prim world of a precocious child, its whims ranging from shaggy liona to mustached men stiffly springing as they play "le football." With Rousseau, thinks Author Shattuck, begin "the childlike tendencies" of modern art, as it starts from scratch again after centuries of traditional maturity...
Behind her, Grace Morley is leaving a museum she has built up from scratch, and that now boasts a growing first-rate collection, an active membership of 4,400, an annual operating budget of $150,000. Says she, "I'm rather happy-my sense is of 'mission accomplished.' " As a farewell present, she will take with her four massive portfolios of art contributed by some 200 local painters, printmakers, watercolorists and sculptors whom she has long championed. Their admiration and affection is warmly returned by Grace Morley, who says firmly: "The Bay Area...
...Running Independently." No sooner were last week's totals posted than California Republicans began to scratch for explanations. Did Bill Knowland fare so badly because his job in the Senate had limited him to 14 days' pre-primary campaigning? Maybe, but by the same token, Congressman Engle, also based in Washington, led his Republican opponent handsomely, though he was far less of a statewide personality. Had Knowland stirred up a hornets' nest of organized-labor opposition with his unqualified stand for a state right-to-work law? Labor certainly was out to beat him. But Republican Goodie...
Mike Schumann and pinch-hitter Ron Cheney led off with scratch singles. Then Dick Morrison, attempting to sacrifice, bunted a low, twisting pop-up down the third base line. Emmet made a head-first dive for the ball, knocking it into foul territory, and the bases were loaded. Clearly rattled by the play, the tall lefthander walked the next two batters, forcing in two Eli runs, before he was finally replaced by Byron Johnson...
...feel of it, we tried some experiments. With the plane refueled, we headed back to the acrobatic area. Brett's usual rear-seat man, ist Lieut. Arthur Brattkus, had prepared a mental-alertness test for me during our coffee break. On the back pages of a scratch pad he had written three elementary problems in arithmetic. These represented a mild foretaste of what a space pilot might have to do in the weightless state. Would my gravity-free brain be clear enough to solve them...