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Four years after he went to London, Copley painted his great Brook Watson and the Shark (see color). The painting was commissioned by Merchant Watson himself, to commemorate a leg lost in a ship's accident in Havana Harbor. Copley used newly acquired techniques in putting the picture together: instead of painting directly from models, he began with sketches of the single figures and then combined their movements as as a choreographer...
...Brook Watson and the Shark was Copley's only real contribution to European art. Actually the work of his London peers (Romney. Gainsborough. Reynolds, West) corrupted Copley's homespun realism. To compete in such fast and fashionable company, the old dog learned a pathetic array of new tricks. He kept on painting industriously until his death at 77, but his ice-clear eye gradually veiled, his granite-firm hand practiced soft flamboyance, his powers slipped away like spirits bored with too much worldliness, sick of success...
...Crimson is considered to have a good chance of gaining its second win. The first win was against Rutgers in the opening match of the year. For the varsity, Bill McAllister will be at one, followed in order by Roger Fleishman, Captain Bob Ornsteen, Brook Stokes, Perry Driggs, Alan Steinert, and Lou Klein...
Byron Johnson pitched the freshman baseball team to a 7-0 shut-out victory over Northeastern Wednesday in Brook-line...
London's historic Grosvenor Square has been a stamping ground for Americans ever since 1785, when John Adams, first U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, moved in at No. 9, on the corner of Brook Street. But though U.S. offices clustered so thickly around the square in World War II that Londoners called the area "Eisenhowerplatz" (now "Little America"), the U.S. never got around to building its own embassy. Last week London buzzed with the news that in Grosvenor Square the U.S. will 1) build a new $3,000,000, five-story embassy, probably...