Word: strokes
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DIED. Charles Sawyer, 92, former Secretary of Commerce (1948-53); of a stroke; in Palm Beach, Fla. A Cincinnati lawyer and entrepreneur, Sawyer ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio in 1938 and six years later was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Belgium by President Roosevelt. Here signed his diplomatic assignment the following year and was named to the Cabinet by his good friend Harry Truman in 1948. A conservative Democrat who served as the Administration's envoy to the business community, Sawyer denounced stringent antitrust legislation and advocated lower corporate taxes and a balanced budget...
...Radcliffe J.V. eight lost to a very strong Dartmouth squad. Dartmouth's J.V. boat jumped out in front with a fast start; and the Radcliffe team, suffering from a short stroke, never got the power it needed to challenge...
...from the varsity oarsmen, there was a lot of grumbling heard. "People in that boat are very self-critical," stroke Jeff Brown said yesterday. He added that most of the varsity rowers "have gotten through not being stars," so they do not expect things to come easy...
...What really moves that boat is when people go for blood." Brown said, adding that it lengthens the stroke by three...
...made literal. This battered-looking object is Exhibit A in the Guggenheim show. In it, space was for the first time declared to be the prime subject of sculpture, but by means traditional to painting: the flat surface, the boundary line. Since tin sheets do not ask to be stroked, as stone or bronze does, the Guitar was wholly visual sculpture, another mark of the new sensibility. If the word revolutionary still means anything in art, this was a revolutionary work. At one stroke it changed the history of its own medium...