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...tousled white hair quivering rhythmically, his ruddy, jovial face radiating glee, Alexander Calder was beating a steady tempo on the African tom-tom. Swirling around him, clanging a Mexican calabash rattle, clattering a huge Swiss cowbell, tinkling a melody on dangling wires, were his friends -writers, painters, musicians. A gentle breeze delicately spun the forest of mobiles hanging from the ceiling of the Connecticut farmhouse. Suddenly "Sandy" Calder stood up, walked outside past sentrylike steel stabiles, shuffled to a nearby creek. Staring at the soft, easy ripples, Calder exclaimed: "Look at those tiny waves, circling, soothing, yet so much alive...
...Mobile. At 59, Alexander Calder, America's top-ranking creator of a new art form, has given mobiles a meaning round the world, from toyland to architecture. Born in a world of traditional art,* Sandy turned first to engineering, drifted from job to job, began to find his medium in 1926 with wire sculptures. He created out of wire a whole circus, complete with leaping trapeze artists, jumping kangaroos and horse-hurdling bareback riders. Their mobility, controlled by springs and a master crank, charmed a Paris Left Bank audience that included Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger and Joan...
...heroic, 7-ft.-tall Hero. There are more than 30 paintings, including a green, red, and white abstraction by Stuart Davis, a whirling Willem de Kooning, a locomotive wheel by Hedda Sterne and a towering Georgia O'Keeffe cityscape on the building's walls. A Calder mobile floats above a table in Vice President Block's office...
...resources. Britain, whose conventional-power costs are estimated at double those in the U.S. (7½ mills per kw-h), needs nuclear power right now; so do many other nations. Britain is going ahead under a nationalized program to build the actual power plants. It has been operating its Calder Hall plant, half again as big as Shippingport, for more than a year, is building three more with better than 200,000 kw. and a fourth with 500,000 kw., v. only 180,000 kw. for the biggest U.S. plant...
...Strange One. From Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man)-a slick, sadistic thriller about a Southern military academy, and a notable film debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...