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After five days the storm abated; two days of calm and clear followed, and then came a new hurricane, wilder than the first. One breaker flooded the Miru's 17-year-old diesel engine, which operated the bilge pump. For two days, Arrow, Donovan, and Davis took turns in a bucket brigade, carting water from the cabin to the deck...
...Segonzac finally held a one-man show. Paris was impressed (one collector so much so that he immediately bought several pictures), and Segonzac became a lion of the French art world. His friends were the cubists and Fauvists-Picasso, Vlaminck, Braque, Dufy-but he never let his wilder and woollier pals influence his painting, kept strictly to gentle landscapes, still lifes, and romantic nudes. Once, Poet Guillaume Apollinaire, an ardent advocate of cubism, urged him to join the movement. "Our modern age, the age of aviation," he argued, "should find its reflection in our paintings." Segonzac politely declined: "Corot lived...
...Freshman Debate Council last night elected officers for the 1952-53 season. Those chosen were: Cliff F. Thompson, president; Robert M. O'Neil vice-president; George M. Fredrickson, treasurer; Elliott D. Wilder, home secretary; Norman D. Connon, corresponding secretary; and Ruben Gittes, public relations...
...fact, to judge from Sironia, Texas in those days must have been a dang sight wilder than even now. In the lives of Cooper's 30-odd major characters, there occur a flood, several murders and suicides, and a castration party. One whorehouse burns down, one Negro is burned alive, one changeling is introduced into a childbed...
...Berthoff to study history at the Univ. College of Wales, Aberyswth, Wales; James T. Busenburg to study agricultural planning at the Allahabad Agricultural Institute, India; William T. Cheswell to study French literature at the Univ. of Paris; Albert S. Cook, Jr. to study literature at the Univ. of Paris; Wilder W. Crane, Jr. to study political science at the Univ. of Vionna; Alan Davis to study linguistics at the Univ. of Padna, Italy; Louis F. Del Duca to study law at the Univ. of Turin, Italy; Richard M. Douglas to study history at the Univ. of Montpollier, France; Joseph Finkelatein...