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To my taste, by far the most beautiful painting was a large canvas with a garden of 63 (Nelson counted them at the opening) poppies on a pink blotch. The colors of this are delicate pastels and each poppy looks like no more than two or three perfectly drawn strokes...
Only two heavyweight championship fights in boxing history have ended quicker.* And none has seemed more of a mismatch. It took Liston just 2 min. 6 sec. of the first round to club Floyd Patterson into oblivion and install himself as the new king of a tarnished sport. He accomplished...
While most historians have trouble explaining one civilization, British Historian Arnold Toynbee sweeps grandly over them all, comparing Machiavelli to St. Benedict, Moses to Mohammed. But a historian who paints so vast a canvas is bound to fudge some of the details. One of the disconcerting details of A Study...
The second canvas, labeled "The Three Spirits," consists, again, of basketballs, of the appropriate number, variously blue, orange, and gold, in the background of lava. Mr. Rutman's style has begun to catch the eye.
Harvard will be first in the Ivy League to have such a facility. Choate, a prep school in New York State, has indoor courts, and Yale, a university in New Haven, has two makeshift canvas-covered courts in its gym.