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...read the Oct. 20 issue of TIME. I found it harder ... to swallow the lump in my throat ... I never thought I would live to see the day in America when the people's votes would be dictated by questionable labor leaders and a politician of the puny stature of Harry Truman. I have about concluded that Americans are not using their heads in this election as clearly as the people in Egypt, who are wholeheartedly uniting to throw out corrupt government. What is the matter with us when we don't . . . read the telltale signs of national...
...Holes & Lumps. Ritchie's show begins with some of the early giants: Auguste Rodin's skin-smooth St. John the Baptist. with its supple lines and easy Renaissance grace; Arietide Maillol's pensive Mediterranean, heavier and thicker; Constantin Brancusi's early abstractions. All the abstractions of the '20s and '30s, says Ritchie, flowed out of the work and theory of those three men. Rodin used to say that sculpture was merely "the hole and the lump"; his admirers carried the idea to a ruthlessly literal conclusion...
...other hand, Hastings noted, 57 members of the Class of '52 left the group's ranks as of last June, the largest number of men ever leaving the Band in one lump...
...Billy had withdrawn his charges, agreed to give Eleanor her separation. Said Rose glumly: "You can't win a fight with a girl." But he brightened when he figured that the session with the judge had saved him about $1,000,000 an hour. There would be no lump-sum settlement as Eleanor originally demanded, and the court would decide on the amount of her alimony (temporarily running at $700 a week...
...disastrous inflation has made many pensions tragic jokes; some workers have accepted lump-sum payoffs of only $35. Nevertheless, Chileans are solidly in favor of the benefits; the number 4054 has become sacred...