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...propeller blade; others swore they got the same upward lift from it as from Shelley's To a Skylark. The museum's new Brancusi was a six-foot slab of blue-grey marble, precariously balanced on its side and entitled Fish. It had neither head nor tail, and no one could be sure in which direction the fish was meant to be swimming. But the slab, gently curved and polished to paperknife thinness, did seem to move somehow, and the uneven grain of the marble gave it a wavering, watery air. It was no small feat to make...
...Fageol (rhymes with gauge all). Lou, 43, a racedriver since 1928, had never competed for the Harmsworth, but in the first of two 40-mile heats he hit the starting line almost at the crack of the gun, was never headed. Slo-Mo-Shun's 30-ft. rooster-tail wake steadily drew away from Horace Dodge's My Sweetie, Jack Schafer's Stick Crust II, and Harold Wilson's Miss Canada IV. Slo-Mo-Shun's speed over the windswept course was 91.127 m.p.h., a shade under the old record, but fast enough. The winning...
...same time, Ross clearly feels a futility in the brand of liberalism he professes. In this confusion of feelings, he apparently could not decide whether to satirize or eulogize his intellectual liberal hero; so he did both. The result is a hectic sort of politico-literary game of tail-the-donkey, combining some elements of post office. What rescues the book from total muddlement is his ironic conception of the intellectual liberal as "the man who lived backward...
...Author Ross had been satisfied merely to pin the tail on his pseudo-liberal donkey, his book might have been a very witty one. As it is, he all too often confuses the silly ass with some of the hard-headed heroes of U.S. history, and starts throwing him political kisses. A man can look mighty foolish kissing a donkey...
Cats and People, by Frances and Richard Lockridge. Felis domestica, from tail to whiskers, from ancient Egypt to the present (TIME...