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Doing it just that way, with flawless form and breathtaking distance, Riisnaes soared 290 ft., longest of the championship and 3 ft. better than Devlin, on his first jump, wound up with 214.0 points to Runner-Up Devlin's 204.7. The new North American champion began his jumping career at the age of five in Norway, where he has since made a modest name in that land of giant jumpers. Riisnaes, who beat the best in the U.S., is currently just the junior champion of Norway...
...regarded as a bull artist, but as a conscientious plodder. Five hours of solid work would also go a long way toward completion of one of the 1,000 word papers in certain other courses which require no research. Longer papers would take proportionately longer. Some of the longest might require most of a student's time for a number of days. But it is hard to see how anyone might suppose that there could be a standard requirement as to the time involved for all papers. The suggestion that Freshmen are expected to spend one third of their first...
Visitors lingered longest before one of the tiniest works on view, the Winter Landscape by Rembrandt (see cut at full-size). Rembrandt broke with the polished limning of his day to create a graphic shorthand of his own, which amounted to putting space in parenthesis. He prized economy of line as much as the Chinese masters, but where they were flattish and fluent, he was spacious and staccato. Simply by the power of his pen, Rembrandt could make plain paper take on the bright leaden hue of winter sky stretching heavy over snow-muffled acres. As easily it seems...
...ended the longest playing career in the National Football League, begun 16 years ago with the remark "Mah feet hurt...
...Williams, 63, bestselling novelist (The Strange Woman, Leave Her to Heaven); of a heart attack while playing in a curling match; in Brookline, Mass. Husky, Mississippi-born Ben Williams sweated out 83 short stories at night during his Boston newspaper days before making a sale, thereafter sold some 500. Longest of his 30-odd full-blown novels was 1947's House Divided, a 1,514-page meticulously documented account of the South and the Civil War; a sequel, The Unconquered, is scheduled for publication this summer...