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...style, as he says, "grew out of me as a tree grows." Born to Armenian immigrants on Long Island, Nakian studied during World War I with Manhattan's Sculptor Paul Manship. By the 1930s, he had won some renown for his idealized, 8-ft.-tall statue of Babe Ruth, his heroic busts of F.D.R., Cordell Hull and other demigods of the New Deal. In the 1940s, he moved on to more remote Greco-Roman themes, explaining that "myths are good because they give you form and a grand story. I don't want only form; I want philosophy...
Today the big-time games and the best pros are well-known at every wide spot in the road that boasts a TV receiver. And television has done more than merely educate the fan; it has improved the player. Babe Ruth may have been a hero to kids who never saw the inside of Yankee Stadium, but most of those kids never saw the Babe. Today, youngsters anywhere in the U.S. can see their heroes, watch them play, and copy their style. "Television," says University of Florida Football Coach Ray Graves, "is the best teaching aid any coach could have...
...Babe Ruth (714), Willie Mays (547), Jimmy Foxx (534), Ted Williams...
...rest of the cast, Janet Leslie played an aging light-lipped neurotic; Francine Stone, a garrulous lady in waiting; Thomas Babe, an intense butcher-surgeon. They were fine...
...customers are the same women who have been buying from Mainbocher, Balenciaga, Givenchy and Dior for years. The list includes such current Best-Dressed women as Lee Radziwill, Christina Ford and Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, as well as Best-Dressed Hall of Famers Gloria Guinness, Jackie Kennedy, "Babe" Paley and Jayne Wrightsman. The key to Valentino's rise: in a fashion world gone mad for mod, he designs clothes of great taste and elegance for women who prize beauty above eccentricity...