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Last week this scene was replayed in the Customs Court of Appeals in Manhattan. Another one of Brancusi's birds, a bright, sinuous piece of brass pipe, tapering at the ends in a not perfectly symmetrical curve, has been shipped from Paris to Edward Steichen, Manhattan photographer and artist. Denied duty-free admission as a work of art, it had been subjected to a tax of $229.35, more than a third of what Purchaser Steichen had paid for it. Appealing the decision, Purchaser Steichen appeared in court accompanied by experts who would support his claim that the bright enigma...
Among those falling by the wayside in last week's Western Amateur were: Frank Dolp, 1926 champion; Keefe Carter, 1925 champion; Chick Evans, eight times champion; Chuck Hunter, winner of the qualifying medal; John Ames, undergraduate son of Princeton's sinuous football player Knowlton ("Snake") Ames...
Another figure in the tournament was John D. Ames, blond son of Knowlton L. ("Snake") Ames (sinuous Princeton quarterback of the strenuous '90s), who lost to Watts Gunn in the second round but was elected president of the Intercollegiate Golf Association...
...green suit, two strands of pearls, many bangles and a slave anklet, 118 sinuous pounds of Mary Garden, Chicago diva, returned last week to the U. S. Newsgatherers ignored her wrinkles, flattered her appearance and she said goodness, yes, that was what came of going without dinners, especially gorgeous ones ("Lord, how I love good food!"); of not smoking or drinking; and of swimming daily in the Mediterranean, with no bathing suit and no company save two police dogs. She told her famed escape-from-a-shark story (TIME, Sept. 13), patted her bobbed hair and apropos of Maria Jeritza...
Spain. "Oh, please don't set the piano on fire!" is heard now in every dance or recreation hall where Spaniards gather to drink hot milk and coffee, to sip gravely a green or golden chartreuse, to listen while supple dancers click their castanets, or to glide through sinuous tangos...