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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the past two years, a drawling, 220-lb. man with a brier pipe in one hand and a notebook in the other has been wandering along the East Coast and through parts of the Midwest talking to people. He has popped up in all sorts of places, and chatted over everything from tea to corn whisky and orange bitters. "I always follow the custom of the country," says Raven Ioor (pronounced yore) McDavid...
Coming into the stretch, the leader drifted wide and a bay colt named Solidarity flashed to the front. In a grand stand box, slim, blonde Owner Bernice Goldstone let out a shriek. Two and a half years ago she and her father, Track Caterer Harry Curland, had attended an auction of Louis B. Mayer horses. Curland quit bidding on Solidarity at $20,000, but when his daughter said, "Daddy, I want that horse," he went to $21,000 and got him. By winning the Gold Cup (and equaling Seabiscuit's mile-and-a-quarter track record...
Around a crude wooden table in an austere schoolroom sat nine men: an Englishman, a Dutchman, an Indian, a Norwegian, a Czech, two Germans, and two Americans. Their debate was on a major matter: What should the Protestant churches do about the Communist attack on religious freedom in Eastern Europe? (For the Vatican's stand on the same question, see INTERNATIONAL...
...brocade and carved buttons, registered the pride and self-possession of the Renaissance itself. The work of Bellini's last years, in such paintings as the Toilet of Venus and Feast of the Gods, anticipated the frank delight in the human form which filled the canvasses of his two greatest pupils, Giorgione and Titian...
...months old. The examination, at Philadelphia's Chevalier Jackson Clinic, showed a rare malformation: the aorta (great artery) leading up from the heart normally passes in front of the esophagus (gullet) and trachea (windpipe). Sandy's aorta was divided and formed a ring around the two tubes. When food distended the gullet, the windpipe was squeezed...