Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keen competition for the blocking back berth continues, as "Skip" Stahley is working with about a dozen potential touchdown trail blazers. Due to a slight knee injury suffered by Johnny Nesmith, a likely line-bucker, Mal McTernan has been shifted from Stahley's group where he spent the first two days of practice, and is now reenforcing the ranks of ball carriers...
Marcel Duchamp painted three Nudes Descending a Staircase. Two are alike save for a slight variation in tonality. Walter Conrad Arensberg owns all three, lent one to the Cleveland show in July, kept the other two at his home in Hollywood where he entertained Painter Duchamp in August...
...picked Eastern Air Lines' No. 1 Flyer Henry Tindall ("Dick"') Merrill, who has flown 2,000,000 miles without injury, last year made news by flying a plane from the U. S. to Chile to aid the overpublicized search for Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth (TIME, Jan. 27). A slight. 39-year-old bachelor. Pilot Merrill does not smoke or drink but has a weakness for perfume. When flying, he usually has a vial of Surrender or Evening in Paris in his pocket, steals an occasional sniff. Singer Richman paid him a reputed $25,000 to go on the trip...
...When slight, sandy-haired Sportswriter John Roberts Tunis read that confession from a classmate in the 25-year report of his Harvard Class of 1911. his curiosity was aroused. Sportswriter Tunis, who is not only a prime authority on tennis but the author of many a thoughtful magazine survey of U. S. education, inspected 540 more such intimate autobiographies. Likewise stirred was his Classmate Laurence Leathe Winship, scholarly Sunday editor of the Boston Globe, who on John Tunis' suggestion sent the Class of 1911 a supplementary questionnaire. From these sources and from his own wide acquaintance in Manhattan...
...ENCHANTED VOYAGE-Robert Nathan-Knopf ($2). Very slight fantasy about a Bronx carpenter who built a four-wheeled sailing ship in his backyard, embarked in it over the roads of Pennsylvania, Maryland and the South...