Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonder the stamina of the nation is deteriorating...
...Mexico's "boy wonder" artist he came to New York in the '20s and helped Novelist Carl Van Vechten discover Harlem. In the '30s his book on Bali started a vogue that still persists. In his newest book, Mexico South: the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Knopf; $7.50), Artist-Writer Miguel Covarrubias has done it again. His gorgeous portfolio of prose, paintings and photographs, introducing to the U.S. the statuesque beauties of Tehuantepec, should do much to make the isthmus a new fad and a tourist goal...
...choice is an interesting one and a good one. Audiences may wonder whether "Adam The Creator" has achieved its purpose--whether, indeed, it has any purpose at all--but they will know at least that the Harvard Dramatic Club has given them something new and vital instead of a warmed-over version of a corner store classic...
Ever since he was the "boy wonder" second baseman and manager of the champion Washington Senators at 27, Bucky has been down more than up. He left Washington, had misery in Detroit. He lasted one season as manager of the Boston Red Sox. He was daring, aggressive, and understanding of his men. But he also let himself be second-guessed too often from the front office. He got philosophical about it: "God gets you up in the morning in good health and guides you safely through traffic to the ballpark. When your turn comes, He takes you by the hand...
Threats from Abroad. No matter which horse the experts singled out at year's end-Stymie, Lucky Draw or Armed-there would be no clear-cut U.S. champion in 1946. But two other nations had turned up wonder horses, and their owners were pointing them for U.S. races...