Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once considered unbeatable. Buckpasser was soundly defeated in the Brooklyn Handicap by Handsome Boy. But Handsome Boy had a 20-pound weight advantage in that race which he will not enjoy under the weight-for-age conditions of the Woodward: both will cary 126 pounds...
...have the pennant sewed up until Hank appeared on TIME. After that, the team lost half its games-and the pennant race. (Although two years later the Orioles won both the pennant and the World Series.) Then there was Leo Durocher, who made the cover as manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. The very week "The Lip" appeared, he was banished from baseball for a year...
...VIRGINIA C. PURDY Brooklyn...
...Brooklyn-born Snaith was a high school dropout who later studied architecture at New York University and, after a brief tour as a Left Bank painter, began scratching a living as an architectural draftsman in Manhattan. After a while, he caught on as a designer of commercial interiors and in 1936 joined Loewy, one of industrial design's pioneers, to help fashion the cabins of TWA's Boeing Stratoliners. Snaith became a partner in 1944, managing partner in 1956, and president in 1961. Loewy, now 74, still retains half ownership of the company, but spends six months...
This spring Washington's Corcoran Gallery put on the first exhibition of Woodville's work to appear since his death in 1855, next week sends the show off to Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery, and from there to Utica, N.Y., Atlanta and Brooklyn. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum is currently showing Mount's Cider Making, which it recently discovered in Portchester, N.Y., and bought for its collection. Even the White House is interested, has included Mount and Woodville on a list of 22 U.S. artists that it would like to add to its own collection...