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Marcel Duchamp has hardly painted a picture since. Carrying French cynicism to almost pathological lengths, he entered a shovel in an art exhibition at the Bourgeois Gallery in 1917 with an elaborate essay on its artistic worth, later bought a bird cage, filled it with lumps of marble, called it Why Not Sneeze? and sold it to Painter Katherine Dreier's sister. Enormously skilful with his fingers, he invented a number of mechanical and optical gadgets. From only one did he make any money. It was a series of colored disks to be spun on the turntable...
This advice came from a large transport plane circling over Cook County. In it, getting a bird's eye view of the area, were a county highway chief and a local judge. When either of them spotted a traffic jam below or detected excessive road friction due to accident or highway construction, he spoke into a short-wave radio transmitter, ordered police-squad automobiles to the spot or offered advice directly to motorists by means of a rebroadcast by Station WBBM...
...Governor Landon is apparently trying to persuade the farmers that two birds in hand are not nearly so good as one scrawny bird up in the top of the next tree. . . . Governor Landon promises, if elected, to do about half as much for the farmer as the New Deal has already done...
...neighbors' children, read them each selection before he included it. In the monosyllabic First Reader, small scholars read of the lame dog, cured by a veterinary, which expressed its gratitude by searching out another lame dog for the same treatment. A Kind Boy freed his caged bird; a Cruel Boy pulled the legs from flies. A Chimney Sweep, coming upon a gold watch, manfully overcame temptation, was rewarded when his employer provided him with an education. Only grim note in this moral feast was the Tease, who frightened a playmate into insanity...
Selassie Speaks- Always the embodiment of bird-like grace and dignity, Ethiopia's Emperor read his speech in Amharic, a dignified language in which the syllables telescope into each other so closely that for minutes at a time His Majesty seemed to be uttering one enormous word. Small League fry had no idea what he was saying, but big League wigs listened through earphones to simultaneous translations of the speech, getting it by the flick of a switch in either French or English. Everyone agreed that it was a great speech-one of the noblest, most factual, irrefutable...