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...impulse put Waldo Peirce on a cattle boat with his Harvard friend John Reed in 1911, and a later impulse sent him overside with a splash to swim back to Boston in what has become a classic change of heart. Huge, flat-nosed, bearded Painter Peirce. now 52, is still unpredictable though married for the third time and the father of twins. In Bangor, Me., last week he went out fishing while Manhattan's Midtown Galleries waited feverishly for new paintings to include in its "retrospective" exhibition of Peirces, to run through September...
...When a track wants to create a splash, or finds the abundance of its revenue embarrassing, it puts on a 'handicap.' The $50,000 or the $100,000 invariably is added to the handicap-and what a handicap! . . . One after another, leading race tracks are adopting as their stellar attraction [this] form of race, started not so many years ago by certain trainers whose horses were of such popularity that terms could be demanded prior to the publication of the conditions. It is called a handicap, but it certainly is not an open handicap, and I have tried...
...them across the Seine, on their left the massive German pavilion with its brooding Nazi eagle, on their right the flamboyant Soviet pavilion topped by excited proletarian figures, and before them a great basin of foaming fountains, flanked by assorted foreign pavilions. Massive-pillared Egypt is a heavy splash of deep red; Rumania scintillates with a faqade of rare stone from her rich mines; Austria is a building the whole front of which is a glass serving to frame a gigantic photograph at the rear, so that one seems to look not at a structure but at Alpine heights...
...aside a Northrop Gamma for experiments, last year made a big splash of headlines by coining the word "over-weather." Theory was that at 35,000 ft. it was always clear, always calm, all winds were steady. That this was not entirely the case was presently proved by TWA's crack Test-Pilot Daniel W. ("Tommy") Tomlinson. Burly and devil-may-care, he learned his flying in the Navy's celebrated acrobatic-team of Sea Hawks, of whom he is the sole survivor. Known as "Indian Joe" to the fleet, Tomlinson would stunt at night with lights...
...does not believe to be dead or helpless. . . . The discussion of all this with experienced fishermen in Nassau led naturally to the old question of what a man should do if he found himself in the water with sharks nearby. All of us agreed that he should kick, splash, yell, and raise all possible commotion but none of us would wish to be held responsible for giving such advice. Frankly, I should be willing to let the shark have the swimming hole, and I would raise no question of riparian privilege...