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Whatever his record this year, the best seems yet to come for Rocky. His happy combination of mental zeal and physical weal long ago caught the approving eye of Boston's great Ted Williams, who has tried to get the young muscleman to curb his passion for bashing the ball-any ball -and to wait for a good pitch. Says Williams: "Some day Rocky is going to take the league apart...
Last year the Dodgers finished seventh, 21 full games from the top. But this year the Dodger veterans and kids have meshed to produce a balanced ball club. The Dodger pitching staff, founded on the cross-fired fast balls of young Don Drysdale, has become one of the best in the league. But the Dodgers will rise or fall in the stretch on the play of three old pros, who are hustling like sandlotters. On third, Junior Gilliam, 30, is having the best season of his seven-year major-league career (.312), has been on base in more than...
...lecturers, who used to discuss his work as a foothill below the summit that Dutch art reached in Rembrandt. In reality, Hals stands halfway between Rembrandt's brooding darkness and Rubens' brilliant dash, also takes his place with them, in retrospect, as one of the best painters that ever lived...
Dancing & Crackling. Born 58 years ago in New Zealand, Lye has adventured all over the world, worked at everything from sheepshearing and ship trimming to sitting still on a South Sea island. Sitting still came hardest to Lye, who sees and best understands the world and himself in terms of motion. On nights off, he likes to dance like an egg beater to Dixieland jazz. His conversation crackles like Chinese fireworks. Some 25 years ago Lye hit on the then revolutionary idea of painting abstractions directly on motion-picture films-a process that has since become commonplace in art film...
...passes that prolonged the moment of peril, he prepared his bull for the kill. From the high-banked tiers of the arena at Málaga, Spaniards cracked out their drumfire oles. "Si!" his fans shouted at Luis Miguel Dominguin, "tú, el primero [yes, you're the best...