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...While Henri Salaun and Diehl Mateer are definitely the top two squash racquets men in America, Heckscher has moved up within striking distance of both. Several times in the past year, he has come within a hair's breadth of taking an important first win from one of them...
...Heckscher lost to Henri Salaun in the fifth game of the finals of the Middlesex Bowl Squash Tournament yesterday. Salaun, America's second ranked player, was forced to the limit before taking the final game, 15-13, from the Harvard captain...
Greatest of all the Russian capitalist collectors was Moscow Tea Merchant Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin, a neat little man with a big head and striking features, who had an uncanny eye for art. One of his earliest modern art enthusiasms was for Henri Matisse, whom he first met in 1906 when Matisse was 37. By 1914 Shchukin had loaded up with 36 Matisse paintings. Collector Shchukin's second stroke of luck happened when Matisse passed him along to Picasso, and the Russian merchant became one of the young Spanish painter's first important patrons. Shchukin had the good sense...
...Europe-minded planner, Jean Monnet, who keeps a model of the Kon-Tiki on his desk as a symbol of those who take brave risks to prove an idea in the face of skepticism and indifference. The other man is NATO's newly chosen Secretary-General, Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium, who has presided over the interminable treaty negotiations in Brussels. One reason why the near completion of the Common Market has burst on Europe as a surprise is that Spaak has learned from the past mistakes of would-be unifiers of Europe not to ask too much...
...Heckscher, No. 1 on the varsity squash team, advanced to the semi-finals of the Harry Cowles squash racquets tournament at the Harvard Club of New York last Saturday. If Heckscher wins his semi-final match this afternoon, he will probably face the tourney's top-seeded player, Henri Salaun, who is ranked No. 2 nationally. Salaun has won the tournament twice...