Word: art
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoulders of a heavyweight. Even so, Utah's Gene Fullmer, 28, was no better than an 8-5 underdog for last week's National Boxing Association middleweight championship fight* in San Francisco. For Fullmer's opponent was the toughest man in the business at the bloody art of toe-to-toe brawling; in 74 fights New York State's hatchet-faced, knobby-kneed Carmen Basilio, 32, had never once been knocked out. Only Basilio seemed to have a pro's real appreciation of Fullmer's skills: "He kicks hell...
...Rearing back and firing like a major leaguer, 13-year-old Art Deras (5 ft. 8 in., 136 Ibs.) struck out 14 to lead his team from Hamtramck, Mich, to a 12-0 rout of Auburn, Calif., and the Little League world championship at Williamsport...
...parlor, the frail old woman in the gold ballet slippers and purple kimono played some of Mozart's loveliest and most deceptively simple music (Sonatas K. 282, 283, 311, 333, Rondo in A Minor, K. 511, Country Dances, K. 606) as RCA Victor engineers recorded her art, sometimes for five hours at a stretch. By now, her fingers were gnarled and clawlike; yet her articulation was so sure, her tone never more pure. After a year of daily sessions, her recordings won cheers as one of the most important contributions to the interpretation of Mozart (TIME...
Died. Sir Jacob Epstein, 78, sculptor of powerful ideas and haunting portraits; of a coronary thrombosis; in London (see ART...
...Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico (6) 8. The Art of Llewellyn Jones, Bonner 9. Celia Garth, Bristow...