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...Haverford, Pa., spectators watching the Intercollegiate Tennis Championship last week did not have to be told who the topnotchers were. Most of them had long been familiar to tennis fans. Seeded No. 1 was 22-year-old Don McNeill of Kenyon College, who had twice defeated Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm, had won the U. S. indoor tennis championship two years ago, had trounced U. S. Champion Bobby Riggs in the final of the French hard-court championship at Paris last year, and last fortnight, at Chicago, had beaten Bobby Riggs and Frank Parker (top and second-ranking...
...recent article on Picasso in the Kenyon Review, Wyndham Lewis refers to the figures in "Two Seated Women" as "empty, pneumatic giantesses." He goes on to say that these nude women have neither a plastic nor a pictorial justification. Mass, he adds, can be conveyed more successfully be other methods. Now Mr. Lewis, an artist himself, should know better than to make such statements. In the first place, who said that Picasso was trying to convey mass? No one except Mr. Lewis and the catalogue which accompanied the exhibit. And both are mistaken. Rather than enter upon an "a priori...
...Barbara Sommes, Simmons Charles W. Joyce Jane Hill, Sarah Lawrence Summer R. Katze Clare Werther, Endicott Maxwell Kaufer Doroty Cohen, Wellesley George T. Kelton Lydia Vorillov, Radcliffe Caleb Kendall Phyllis Thompson, Belmont Robert B. Kent Jane Schultz, Palm Beach Samuel L. Kent Jean Ellen duPont, Wilmington, Del. Theodore S. Kenyon, Jr. Jean White, Wellesley Drue King, Jr. Hope Imes, Wellesley Henry P. King, Jr. Sylvia Choate, Boston Hayward S. Kirby, Jr. Happy Burke Louis R. Kroll Mary Milnor, Dalton School Stanley Lampert Charlotte Sheinkopf, Boston James P. Lannon, II Betsy Nilson, St. Catherine's William H. Latimer, Jr. Deedee Dunham...
Other colleges to receive part of the fund were Brown, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton, $116,500 apiece; and Franklin and Marshal, Kenyon, Hobart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Bowdoln, $70,000 apiece...
...story of a neglected wife, Skylark tells how Lydia Kenyon, wife of a $50,000-a-year Manhattan adman, discovered her husband was sleeping with his business, broke up that romance by curing him of the desire to be a big shot. The novel's dialogue ("She's a woman, she's life itself -she makes the grass grow, see? She's a skylark"), its improbable characters and adroit situations, may sound more convincing on the stage than in print. Manhattanites may have a chance to find out next autumn, when ebullient Gertrude Lawrence, who toured...