Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sophomore Ben Heckscher will play at one, with Guy Paschal at two, and Captain Bill Wister at three. Bob Brown, Cal Place and Bancroft "Bats" Wheeler fill the middle positions. Pete Milton will play seven, but Barnaby had not decided when the team left Cambridge Friday morning whether Roger Cortesi or Mike Levinson would play at eight. Martin Heckscher and Chuck MacVeagh went along as spares...
Sophomore Ben Heckscher met last year's world open squash champion Henri Salaun in the final of the Massachusetts Championship last night, and lost by a score of 3 to 1. The victory at the University Club gave Salaun his sixth consecutive state title...
...nation's most admired artists last week showed what he had accomplished in his last 25 years of painting. The retrospective exhibition at Manhattan's Downtown Gallery proved that in the past quarter century the art of burly Ben Shahn has mellowed and broadened with the man. The bristling dark mustache of his fiery youth has faded to white, and now it screens more smiles than scowls. At 56, after many storms, Shahn seems to have entered a calm...
Shahn was raised in a Brooklyn slum, where the local toughs forced him to portray favorite athletes on the pavement with chalk. Little Ben learned to draw very well indeed. He also developed a temper. It was the perfect schooling for a "proletarian-school" painter. Shahn grew up to startle the art world with a series of watercolors, almost as beautiful as they were bitter, based on the Sacco-Vanzetti case. He became perhaps the best, and most depressing, painter of the Great Depression. Shahn's "havenots" were lean as greyhounds and sad-eyed as spaniels; his "haves" always...
...Brooklyn toughs of his boyhood would never appreciate the aging Ben Shahn, coming generations well...