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...first sketch and the time he begins painting, measures his color areas to give them precise geometrical proportions. ("My paintings are recitals; too many artists stop with the rehearsals.") Among the titles of his newest paintings were "Four Central Warm Colors Surrounded by Two Blues" and "Neutral Gray Margin and Center the Same...
...pointed out, the post-election drop had looked worse than it was. Only 2.8% of the shares on the Exchange had been sold in the 50 sessions after Nov. 2. The drop, apparently, had been caused not by heavy selling but by the "thin market," partly due to high margin requirements...
...spectators with one of the biggest thrills of the day with their neck and neck race with Yale. Tom McGrath led off, ran a steady race, and passed the stick to John Packard who lost ground to Yale's Ellinger. Rounie Berman then narrowed the Elis' margin to 3 yards. Anchor man Eddie Grutsner made a gallant try for the lead but Yale's Brown finished with a 1 1/2 yard advantage. The winning time was 329.9 with Dartmouth in 3rd place. Berman noted that inexperience in competition seemed to be what hurt the '52 runners most...
...Mapai, the mildly socialist party of Premier Ben-Gurion and Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok, which roughly corresponds to Britain's Labor Party. It favors "democratic" socialism, limited Western orientation, peace with the Arabs. It is generally expected to win, though not by as large a margin as Ben-Gurion and Shertok are fighting for. It has optimistically nominated 118 candidates for the 120 posts to be filled. "The other two places," cracked Israelis last week, "are for the opposition...
...Taft bill, which passed the Senate with a comfortable margin last year, but never reached the House floor, neatly sat on the fence in the public vs. private school aid controversy. Taft left it up to the states. "It is a home-rule provision," he said, admitting that he had "received criticism both from those interested in private schools and from those who think there should be no assistance to private schools of any kind...