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...expert members of the team fared well this winter in competition with leading racers from predominantly skiing colleges, especially as compared with past performances. The season started right after Christmas with the annual Intercollegiate Ski Tournament at Lake Placid, in which the Crimson ski runners pulled up from behind a star-studded list of opponents, and by virtue of complete cooperation and teamwork, placed a close second to Middlebury...
...stuff were Congressional squawks to Mississippi-reared William Lane Austin, 69, still bland-browed, still placid of disposition after 40 years of brooding on Government statistics. He pointed out that much more inquisitive financial questions had been asked in the 1850, 1860 and 1870 censuses (TIME, March 4), that some of the new questions had been inserted this year at the earnest request of business and sociological institutions; that no one had ever been jailed for refusing to answer a census question...
...country's biggest, boldest iron men (and U. S. bobbers have defeated Europeans in two out of three Olympic competitions) were not good enough last week to beat Katharine Dewey and her three teammates. Roaring down Lake Placid's Mount Van Hoevenberg run-iJ? miles of whizzing around 25 razzle-dazzle curves-Miss Dewey turned in times of 1 :08.08, 1 :08.52, 1:07.07 1:07.10. Her time for the four heats (4 min., 30.71 sec.) was a full second better than that of Big Bill Linney, winner of four successive major championships...
...then deans of Yale's Law and Medical Schools, respectively, put their heads together and started Yale's Institute of Human Relations. Purpose: to find ways & means whereby mankind could learn to live together more harmoniously. The Institute has not yet found the formula. Its director is placid, pipe-smoking Dr. Mark Arthur May. Last year Dr. May and his colleagues reported that they had formed some theories at least about why men do not live harmoniously, published their theories in a book called Frustration and Aggression (TIME, March 6). Last week Dr. May brought his report...
Several landscapes by Adolf Dehn lend a placid note to an otherwise fantastic exhibit. With paintings by Grosz, Braque, Archipenko, and Gleizes decorating the walls, it might be assumed that the conservative Dehn watercolors would be reduced to insignificance. But Dehn does more than hold his own. His clear, wind-washed landscapes are executed in a manner similar to that of Edward Hopper. The colors are neutralized but are far from dirty; Dehn's whole technique is that of a careful, better-than-average artist...