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...rose on the day after Thanksgiving, he dropped his bicycle on his grandmother's frosty lawn in Monroe, N. Y., curled up in a sleeping bag and went to sleep. He felt good, not only because he had covered 3,268 miles on $31 and had averaged 78 strenuous miles a day, but because on his way he had painted about 40 water colors. Last week 25 of them, exhibited at the Manhattan galleries of Charles L. Morgan, made the beginning of a reputation for 21-year-old Eyvind Earle...
...Kennedy's last week in office was exceedingly strenuous. Back in Washington from Florida, he dined privately with the President; worked on a deal by which the Maritime Commission proposes to buy three good ships from International Mercantile Marine, for South American service; announced consolidation of the Grace Steamship Co. and Columbian Steamship Co.; discussed plans for building for South American trade three new 25-knot luxury liners convertible into aircraft carriers. He also had his last say on his two biggest and unsolved problems-new construction and maritime labor...
Princeton's Al Van de Weghe has done the 150-yard backstroke in 1:35.7, an intercollegiate record, while the Yale record is Brucckel's 1:38.7. Cummin's Harvard record is 1:37.6, so league competition in this event this year will be particularly strenuous...
Cavalcade's back-bending apologies placated the old knight, but within a month Cavalcade's muddling had Sir George's attorneys again on the trail. While Editor Brittain was away recuperating from his strenuous July, another blunderling picked an old letter from Cavalcade's, unused type, slapped it into the August 7 issue to fill out a column. By the weirdest chance this second letter attacked Sir George for attacking Catholicism: Didactic, Semitic, would-be letter -writer George Turner should learn that in the art of good journalism lies the avoidance of tautology. His very being...
...singer of enormous endurance. Mariette Mazarin, who introduced the part to the U. S. in 1910, fainted while taking her final curtain calls. The late Ernestine Schumann-Heink, powerful Katrinka of opera singers, left the original cast at Dresden because she considered the part of nightmare-haunted Klytemnestra too strenuous...