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...Two events finally gave direction to Barlach's groping. In Florence he sat at the feet of Poet Theodor Daubler, whose rhapsodic verse, mystically urging man to free his spirit from the pull of Earth, appealed to Barlach's own yearnings. Even more important was a two-month trip to southern Russia, where Barlach, on first sighting the sturdy peasant figures against the limitless perspective, exclaimed: "Donnerwetter! There sit bronzes...
...aborigines about it, was answered with the word "Kanguroo" and never learned that the word meant "I don't understand you." After the near shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef, the Endeavour was badly in need of a drydock, and Cook put in at Jakarta (then Batavia). The two-month stay salvaged the ship but wrecked the crew. Seven men died of malaria and dysentery in the fetid port, another two dozen on shipboard as the Endeavour limped her solitary way around South Africa, back to the Thames and into the history books...
...Arriving in Manhattan for a two-month U.S. tour, France's brightest literary prodigy, winsome Novelist null (Bonjour Tristesse-TIME, Feb. 14) Sagan, 19, breakfasted (on tea and soda crackers) with reporters who heard how Bonjour, a bestseller in both France and the U.S., was written. Recalled Françoise: "I was eliminated from the Sorbonne in the summer of 1953 for skipping all my classes. So, having nothing else to do, I sat in cafes and bars around the Sorbonne and wrote the book in a month." Asked how her daddy, a happily married Paris manufacturer, felt about...
Carroll will recruit 15 men from the Ivy League for the two-month venture into land "where no white man has ever been...
...about failing in politics as he had in war. Since that unhappy lesson, the Democrats have held their conventions earlier. Last week, however, new National Chairman Paul Butler announced that the 1956 convention will start Monday, Aug. 27, so as to pack the sharpest television punch into a two-month campaign...