Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Child of the Century, by Ben Hecht...
...Ben Jensen of Iowa...
...last day, with two rugged rounds ahead, handsome, young (23) Gene Littler, last year's amateur champion only lately turned pro, was a nervous two strokes in the lead. Pressing hard to hang on, defending Champion Ben Hogan was in a tie for second. His running mate was Ed Furgol, 37, a tall, gaunt pro from St. Louis' Westwood Club with easily the most distinctive style in the tournament...
...pavilion, which the Museum of Modern Art bought this year from the Grand Central Art Galleries, offered the works of only two painters-Social Realist Ben Shahn and Abstract-Expressionist Willem De Kooning. A two-man affair by deliberate museum decision, it made for a forceful though far from representative showing. Shahn, whose art had its roots in proletarian fury and has now become fashionable, topped the list of lesser prizewinners with an $800 award. Many exhibitors, notably those of the Iron Curtain countries, seemed stifled by their messages. Shahn, on the contrary, is lost without one. Shahn...
...British pavilion was dominated by another specialist in horror and violence: Francis Bacon (TIME, Oct. 19). Bacon's screaming, purple-robed cardinals and half-shaped machine gunners are crudely painted and unfeelingly colored, yet convincing, as blurred snapshots can be. Bacon was balanced by Ben Nicholson's abstractions, as dry and cold as a well-made Martini...