Word: champs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philadelphia Museum of Art, it is perhaps one more example of the public catching up with revolutionary art. But its technique of multiple exposures bridges the gap between Muybridge's galloping horses and Gjon Mili's stroboscopic studies of dancers. And even Du champ's greatest folly-dropping pieces of thread on the canvas and varnishing them where they fell-dramatized the importance that chance plays in painting, and seems an extraordinarily lucky hunch to a generation familiar with Jackson Pollock's drip paintings...
...ambitious enough to send him to Harvard. There he mingled with Yankee plutocrats among the alumni, kept them supplied with choice tickets to football games. With his flashing smile and disarming frankness, Joe got along with most anyone. On a summer cruise to Europe, he spotted Heavyweight Boxing Champ Jack Johnson in the ship's lounge, promptly bounced a spitball off his massive dome. Johnson turned and glared. Kennedy smiled and introduced himself, danced with Johnson's pretty wife, and left with a card inscribed, "To Joe Kennedy, a mighty fine fellow...
...Montreal's Atwater Club. Harvard's second player best Ross Adair, one of Canada's top-ranked amateurs, 15-13, 17-16, 15-13. Last year Adair played number one for McGill, and was one of just three collegiate players to win a game from Harvard's national collegiate champ, Vic Neiderhoffer...
...spare it. Besides, if he had had his own way, World War II would have cost but one casualty: it would have been just a duel between Field Marshal Rommel and General Patton. "The armies could watch," he said. "If I killed him, I'd be the champ. If he killed me-well...
...line that had formed was John Brown, a messenger working for TIME'S Washington Bureau. He placed ten copies in a suitcase and headed for the airport. Less than two hours later, copies were turned over to a team assigned to prepare the special section-Nation Editor Champ Clark, Writers Marshall Loeb and William Johnson, Researchers Harriet Heck and Pat Gordon. They closed their doors and started reading the nearly 300,000 words...