Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When TIME'S Sport editor Marshall Smith flew to Fort Worth, Texas to get Ben Hogan's story for the first golf cover TIME has run in ten years,* he found that Hogan had his mind on other things than golf. Like Mr. Blandings, he was building a house, and everything seemed to be wrong with it. According to Hogan, the rooms had been painted the wrong colors, a rug he had won in a golf tournament had been cut wrong, etc. Smith was put to work carrying cartons of household goods from the garage into the house...
After 13 years of experimenting, Cage has managed to weld together ten works (Construction in Metal, Second Construction, etc.) for pipe-length, brake-drum orchestras, and, with six different "preparations," nine major works for piano. Necessarily expressionistic, one of his sonatas last week moved the New York Times to get a faraway look in its good, grey eyes: "The fourteenth sonata . . . suggested burro's hoofs on far-off cobbles, while a gentle church bell sounded sadly in the distance...
...Most of the time the puck was in Northeastern territory, and only in the second period, when the Crimson seemed to have a permanent lease on the penalty box. In the third stanza, the varsity's edge became obvious. They took some forty shots to Northeastern's ten and out-skated them as well...
Most of the ten lacked both the authority of tradition and the excitement of artistic rebellion. That was not too surprising. The chairman of the jury had lucidly described the sculptors' dilemma in a letter sent to each of them before they began work. "I would like to urge you to guide and instruct," he wrote, "to lead strongly in these artistic matters. But it is obvious, I feel, that the beneficial effect of your leadership will be much greater if the sculptural image which we offer is not too much of a jolt...
...Cheerio!" Mary bequeathed a fur-piece to one of her former lovers, the Duke of Braganza, and suggested that he hang it over his bed. Then (as Lonyay reconstructs the police and medical evidence) Rudolph blew the top of her head off with his revolver and, after some ten hours, summoned the courage to shoot himself...