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...told this story in his office in city hall, stretched full-length in a black leather chair to one side of the fireplace, where he customarily talks to visitors. The office is well proportioned: 18-ft. ceilings and six high arches containing the windows and doors. The paintings vary???an uninteresting abstract consisting of parallel lines; a Matisse of a languishing nude; a study by Isabel Bishop of "Two Girls," young women really, the one in the red hat looking concerned toward the one in the black hat, who is holding a letter, perhaps conveying bad news. The room...
...year 1347 King Charles of Bohemia, while hunting through a rocky, gorge-like valley, discovered that in the streams of the district flowed waters with remarkable medicinal properties. Since that period many a health seeker, and also many a fashionable tourist, has come to Karlovy Vary???better known as Carlsbad. Last week, however, Carlsbad became the centre of intellectual as well as medicinal activity, for to the famed spa came 22 chess Masters and Grand Masters* to play in the fourth annual Carlsbad International Tournament. They came not seeking health?for, contrary to popular impression, chess players are more often...
...Washington by the northwest, you will pass the Chevy Chase Country Club. There is a links. It was somewhere near the eleventh or twelfth hole?accounts vary???somewhere near one of these holes, on a pleasant June day, that a foursome was in progress. Part of it was on the fair green and part of it was in the foul. The part on the fair green consisted of Senators Joseph T. Robinson and Andrieus A. Jones. The part in the foul was Senators Thomas J. Walsh and John B. Kendrick. These latter had lost, or had failed to discover, their...
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