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...crank phones. Once a break in the line was not repaired for three months. Some lines are down because poles have rotted away and have not been replaced. On a $6,372 gross last year, the company lost $39.58, It prints no directory; subscribers merely give the crank a whirl and say: "Gimme John Boone...
...little overwhelmed at being considered an artist (he has tremendous respect for the big names of U.S. painting, once spent a summer studying with Henry Varnum Poor), Cartoonist Fitzpatrick spent his time last week in a happy whirl of chats and drinks, bought a painting by Max Weber. As a concession to Art, Fitzpatrick had hung two oil paintings among his cartoons: one a Daumier-brown picture of a group of card players, the other a dour, Picassoesque self-portrait (see cut). Of the latter he said sadly: "It was done in one of my blue periods, during a hangover...
...victorious hosts swept all four pole places and the first three hammer throws. Dick Pflster won the discus with a 129 feet 1 inch whirl, and took third in the shot with a put less than four inches behind John Grigas of Holy Cross...
...concert was a benefit for an organization called Artists in Need, Inc., which helps poor Austrian exiles. Among the conductors who put 65 New York Philharmonikers through a waltzy whirl were Ralph Benatzky (White Horse Inn), Robert Stolz (Two Hearts, Spring Parade in the movies) and a courtesy-Viennese, Jaromir Weinberger, famed Czech polka-&-fugue man (Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer, Variations and Fugue on Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree...
Matter and energy are manifestations of the same thing: matter is energy "frozen" into electric particles. These whirl in energy systems called atoms, which in turn form larger energy systems called molecules. These form dynamic energy systems called cells, which we refer to as "alive." Thus the difference between "dead" atoms and "living" cells is not of ultimate nature but of complexity. Man is an aggregate of 1,000 billion cells, each of them an individual, self-centred organism, which work together by means of chemical signals and the nervous system. This final complexity, "living" man, evolved from nonlife...