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Scrimmages were started a couple of days after the enforced delayed opening on September 15 and have continued with increased vigor ever since. There have been both morning and afternoon sessions...
...Canada is fabulous Ontario-chiefly famed abroad for the Dionne Quintuplets. It is exactly 1,000 miles long by 1,050 miles wide-so big that the five States of New York, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota string the length of its southern border. Three years ago strapping, vigorous Ontario started taking the orders of a chubby, double-chinned, deep-dimpled, dynamic man she calls "Mitch." Two years ago he left her suddenly for Florida, announcing "I will retire from public life! There is no chance of my changing my mind." However, when the remaining kidney which had thus sent...
...artists who have been aware for twenty years of the vigor of African Negro sculpture-so aware that their camp followers have made fetish figures fashionable and thereby encouraged Paris ateliers to fake them by the carload-the Lips book will have value in clarifying the historical background of an unassimilated artistic influence and indicating the future possibilities of its assimilation. Professor Lios insists that all analogies between genuine primitive art and the drawings or modelings of children are unsuccessful. Savage kingdoms in Africa and the South Seas, for example, developed through settled centuries a mastery of their native materials...
Many times Leftists have halted Rightist offensives, counterattacked with vigor, but last week's capture of Belchite, in spite of the fact that the rebels still held the Cathedral, was the first important Leftist victory since the Italian rout at Guadalajara in March (TIME, March 22 et seq.). Politically it was still more important. Jealousy behind the lines has removed from command of the Leftist International Brigade General Emilio Kleber, has seriously handicapped the defender of Madrid, General José Miaja. For the recent Saragossa-Teruel offensive 200,000 men were assembled, 200 planes, nearly 1,000 trucks. This...
Optimistic, like nearly all of H. G. Wells's books, Brynhild or The Show of Things also encouraged Wellsians by its age-belying vigor. The story of a clever man's disintegration and an honest woman's fulfillment, it is also a Wellsian fable, told without his usual blackboard charts and magic-lantern slides, of the human search for reality...