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Gentle spring wind, velvety river bank, luscious ultra violet rays not-withstanding, it is once again Reading Period. For a strange three week interlude we live only in a doomed freedom that is the present. Some of us study 15 hours a day, some of us do nothing but play pool, some of us quietly lose our minds...
Muir, 61, is a carver who penetrates a forest of woods: hard black walnut, violet kingwood, satiny lignum vitae, reddish cocobolo, Pernambuco wood, mahogany, apple, redwood and familiar trees. Occasionally he also works with granite. Yet it is dried seed pods, withered blossoms, moss and lichens that give Muir his forms. "I am a scavenger and gatherer of all sorts of flora not thought much of by most people," he says...
Barnaby Conrad, author of Encyclopedia of Bullfighting, had flown down from San Francisco for the fight and dropped in to say hello, wearing a sweatshirt adorned with a picture of Manolete. At last, El Cordobés put on his sequined jacket of violet silk, and the blonde emerged from the bathroom, where she had been softly crying. He flipped her on the behind with a towel, and she smiled. Then someone shouted, "Ay, Matador!" and it was off to the Plaza in a roar of police motorcycles...
...Rodenbach, a 6-2 guard, is the second leading Tiger scorer with a sizzling 9.2 average; 6-2 forward Bob Hasrlow is averaging 9.0. The squad generally assumes the posture of a shrinking violet, but last week against Penn, when Bradley was held to four field goals, their well- balanced performance gave Princeton...
...Violet Stems. Schippers was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., but he has no taste for the sticks anymore. He is building a house on Corfu and keeps apartments in Rome and New York and, happily established as a princely bachelor, he avoids all thought of a permanent conductorship somewhere. When he first led an orchestra, he says, his legs "trembled like violet stems," but success has blessed him with massive assurance. Now, in eager pursuit of a future he scarcely has reason to doubt, he says that "it's a marvelous feeling to know that you know more...