Word: exaction
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...correcting your statement that Dizzy Dean was born in Oklahoma [TIME, April 15]. Everyone around here knows that he was born in Arkansas According to the father of the Dean boys, the event took place in a little town called Lucas; he was a little hazy as to the exact time and place since, evidently, at that time, the arrival of a child was scarcely an event of sufficient importance to take up much room in his memory...
...jungle tragedy, taken on the scene by the Belgian Congo's official photographer. L'Illustration's cover showed the great white gash the plane had cut in the forest. Inside was a meticulous chart showing the contours of the plane's debris and the exact positions to which the crash hurled the bodies of Governor and Mme Renard and their five companions...
...checkered table cloth of the oval dining-room table. In 1907. when he was 15, Grant Wood made a little water color of a spray of green currants of which he is extremely proud. It was painted in what he now realizes is his natural style, hard, exact, brittle. The currants were on view last week together with a number of pictures from the pink-whisker period of Artist Wood's career-impressionist landscapes, views of Paris, Italian farmyards. Most of these early Wood canvases have found their way into the collection of David Turner of Cedar Rapids, Iowa...
...Lincoln MacVeagh, something of an archeologist himself, thought the find might prove to be among the most important in a decade. Dr. Shear planned to ship one of the skeletons, protected by wax, to anthropologists of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History in the hope that its exact age and race affiliation could be determined...
...even today, was represented by six canvases in the Whitney show. Best of the lot was his picture of the Biglen brothers, famed oarsmen of the 1870's, pulling their double shell around a mark in a race. Eakins' particular passion was having his models pose in exactly the same attitude from day to day. He used to make them stand against a background marked out with squared lines with colored ribbons attached at the exact point where head, elbow, knee, etc. were supposed to be. Prizefights were his passion. In 1886 he shocked all Philadelphia...