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...last week Curtis announced that the magazine had hit its stride. Its new issue (March) was something to see, and the writing was no longer hey-look. It offered a huge (39-page) and handsome Mexican takeout, a cool appraisal of Atlantic City, an engaging Swiss essay, written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans. Sales had bounced over 605,000, the biggest circulation a 50? magazine had ever reached in one year. Curtis was looking forward to the day when Holiday would even make money...
...team during the first two periods of yesterday's game with Boston College at the Arena. The Eagles carried an 8 to 1 lead going into the final frame and went on to win 10 to 5, despite a four-goal Crimson rally when the Chasemen finally hit their stride...
Sixty representatives of 51,000 Massachusetts college and university students gathered at Smith College over the weekend and took another long stride toward formation of a National Student Organization by setting up a regional branch...
Returning to the attack five days later, Jewell had his own name for Picasso's latest period. "This, as of course everyone knows," said he, "is the phase of the monstrous distortions. . . . Now, distortion itself I can quite take in my stride. But I must repeat with firmness, even though I alone be out of step, that Picasso's painting of about the last 15 years has me stymied. . . . [It] appears to be, in the main, just mediocre or bad painting...
Died. Grace Moore, 45, bubbling, blonde hillbilly girl (selfstyled) who became one of the Metropolitan Opera's first-string divas (Mimi, Tosca), took Hollywood in stride (One Night of Love), toured operatic and concert stages the world over; in a plane crash; in Copenhagen (see FOREIGN NEWS...