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...Exposition, who curves and glows and actually "breathes" (by virtue of a string attached to the back of her belly, pulled gently at intervals...
Graphic art has very rarely taken on the quality of music. It did so in the work of William Blake. At its best, Blake's line drawing has the airy movement and harmony of a string quartet. This is not all it has. On a few square inches of white paper Blake could and did put forms comparable in grandeur to the frescoes of Michelangelo. Few if any exhibitions this season had more artistic interest than a comprehensive show of Blake which opened last week at the Philadelphia Museum...
...luck moved fast and deviously one foggy night this week on the Chicago Great Western Railroad. On a siding at Tennant, on the Iowa plains, a freight engine crew scrambled from the cab when a steam pipe burst. With brakes somehow released, the locomotive backed into a string of cars and with reverse lever swung forward by the impact, reversed its direction. Passing its appalled engineer and fireman it swung out on to the main line, picked up a grain car ahead of it and disappeared into the mist. Up the main line at 50 m.p.h. whipped No. 34, Great...
Feature of the afternoon was Ted Schoenberg's 4:30 flattening of Bill Stone with a three-quarter nelson in the 126 pound division. Schoenberg, repeating his victory in Saturday's close Columbia meet, again showed his steady improvement as a first-string wrestler...
...bomb consisted of a soda bottle filled with gun-powder, buckshot, and newspaper. There was a fuse attached to the explosives, but the fuse was a piece of string which burned out before the fire reached the bottle...