Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reclining Figure provides a well-acted catalogue of art-world highjinks, of 57th Street dealers who are chiefly double-dealers, of competitiveness that seems more like conspiracy. The play takes some amusing potshots at these methods, and in the last act finally mixes the methods with a lively madness of its own. Helped by Percy Waram's deft performance, the play also gets some fun out of the crotchety Edgerton-for whom, plainly, Philadelphia's late great Collector Albert (Argyrol) Barnes was the inspiration...
...Marion's varsity fencing team will meet it other colleges this afternoon and tomorrow in New York City in the 57th Annual Intercollegiate Fencing competition...
Coach Edo Marion's fencing team will go into the 57th annual collegiate championships at New York University this Saturday with a three won and three lost record. It best Boston University 10-17, M.I.T. 13-14, and Trinity 13-14, and lost to Columbia 8-19, Army 9-18, and Yale...
...Renoir and actually have 29 of his works, of all periods, presently hanging. But paintings and painters do gradually use up and outlast their popularity ... In 1950 we here accepted the gift of Picasso's Nude Woman (1910), closely equivalent to the Tate's purchase. A 57th Street dealer tells us the going price for it would be $25,000, if anything equivalent were attainable−so a price of, say, $12,500 for the Tate Picasso would scarcely be at an inflated price...
...three months, the Council voted. A majority agreed to let the Israelis resume work on the canal, providing that General Bennike found the project endangered no legitimate Arab interest. This was sure to madden the Syrians, and gave the Russians a chance to curry Arab favor. Russia cast its 57th Security Council veto, its first in a Middle East dispute and its first against Israel. Warned Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb: "This is a melancholy and sinister occasion-melancholy . . . for future international cooperation; sinister, because of its implications for the cause of peace in the Arab world...