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Georges Braque, 68, collects and polishes old bones to embody in the ceramics he is making nowadays. Braque and Picasso were once Montmartre pals, painted almost indistinguishable cubist pictures. After the two parted, Braque stuck with cubism, gradually developed it into the tricky, fluid and elaborate medium of expression he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Captain Pablo's Voyages (See Cover) | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

Police terrorism, a heritage from the Japanese, has abated in the last year, but is not yet ended. Korean police cr.n still make the average citizen's life a misery of forms, identification cards, curfews and rigid interrogations. The tricky job of making the police behave is in well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Progress Report, Jun. 5, 1950 | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

A four-hour pounding down the tricky, debris-laden Hudson River in a bucking outboard motorboat is not every man's idea of the way to spend Sunday morning. But to some people, it is the high spot of the year. This week 234 of such enthusiasts clambered into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Just for Fun | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

There it was, the millennium between thumb and forefinger, all set to pop into the world's wide mouth. But history has always had a deft way of palming the millennium till later in the show; and in Frank Norris' tricky piece of pseudohistorical vaudeville, Nutro 29, now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Millennium Deferred | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

After fumbling a tricky grounder and letting three runs score, Ted came in for another round of raspberries. This time, before he reached the dugout, he replied with a gesture from the international sign language of obscenity which Boston sport-writers primly described as a "vulgar motion." Then, while waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sorry, Fellows! | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

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