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...roof fell in on the Harvard swimming team last Saturday afternoon in New Haven, as a fired-up Yale squad completely demolished the Crimson en route to an embarassingly easy 78-35 win before a delighted partisan crowd at the Eli's cavernous Payne Whitney pool...
...campaign in some ways recalls Eugene McCarthy's four years ago, but it lacks the messianic aura. There are no great swarms of young "Get Clean for Gene" volunteers; his campaign is $40,000 in debt, despite contributions from such wealthy backers as Norton Simon and Jock Whitney. He starts his 20-hour campaign days at factories or simply walking the streets of New Hampshire towns pumping hands and asking: "Hello, Pete McCloskey, do you have any questions for a fellow running for President?" When he gets a question, he often answers in such time-consuming detail that...
...form of wit (a dubious proposition), then it is appropriate that a punning game should have proliferated in Manhattan's art world at this moment of its fortunes. The gimmick, according to the New York Times, was set in motion by Stephen E. Weil, an administrator of the Whitney Museum. It goes like this: pick an artist's name, then make up a question for which it is the answer. Weil's examples...
Millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, 72, called a press conference to tell the world that even though he had not been asked to fill the vacant post of U.S. Ambassador to Spain, he was not going to take the job because the ten-month period remaining until the presidential election was too short "to enable me to accomplish anything enduring." After November, though, if anybody cares, "I speak tourist Spanish with a Mexican accent, but I'm taking lessons...
American Indian Art by Norman Feder. 445 pages. Abrams. $35. A connoisseur's collection of Indian painting, weaving, carving and mask designs put together by the Denver Museum director responsible for the fine Indian art show now at Manhattan's Whitney Museum (TIME. Dec. 6). Amid a plethora of the overupholstered and overpriced, this book is a notable example of wampum well spent...