Word: clays
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Jimmy Connors? Brian Gottfried? Bjorn Borg? They should live so long. The tireless champ is Clarence Chaffee, 75, who dominates U.S. grass and clay courts in the 75-and-over division, and was winning matches when the parents of today's stars were in diapers. Chaffee, the retired tennis, squash and soccer coach at Williams College (Mass.), is one of the most remarkable of the 1,200 or so Super-Seniors-players who are at least 55 years old and still compete in tournament tennis. In the five years since the Super-Senior organization was founded, divisions have been...
...scourge of the 70s group, Buddy Goeltz, 71, wears a hearing aid. It faltered during the finals of the U.S. Clay Court Championships last fall, preventing him from hearing any of the linesmen's calls. He still won, 6-0, 6-0, beating Sam Shore, 71. Bitsy Grant, 66, a member of the U.S. Davis Cup team in the mid-1930s, has had cataract operations on both eyes, and wears sunglasses and a sun visor on the court. But none of the ailments of the Super-Seniors is as celebrated as that of L. Roe Campbell, 77, secretary-treasurer...
...become a banker, was named Bernard Leach. He is 90 now, and blind, but for at least 40 years Leach has been recognized as the greatest living Western potter, ranking with the Japanese masters Shoji Hamada, Kenkichi Tomimoto and Kanjiro Kawai as one of the four supreme masters of clay in modern times, East or West. All this month a retrospective exhibition, including some 200 Leach pots, has been on view at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. It spans his whole working life from that first raku plate, through the wares he made as a student...
...rigorous "drawing" are a legacy from Chinese Sung dynasty pottery. But the emblem of his style-and his favorite possession-is a Korean rice bowl, made by a 19th century village potter on an irregular wheel. "That is as it should be," he says, caressing the roughly glazed clay. "The plain and unagitated, the uncalculated, the harmless, the straightforward, the natural, the innocent, the humble, the modest: where does beauty lie if not in these qualities? More than anything else, this pot is healthy...
...water. These photographs all evoke multitudes of other images--perhaps a touchstone of worthwhile art is just this ability to reach out beyond itself. Rubinfien's beach house with a heart painted on it might be taken from Fellini's memory. And Germano's trees in Brooklyn, shading clay or plastic Madonnas, remind me of a Brooklyn "miracle" I once heard of... A statuette of the Madonna, enshrined in the hollow of a tree, began to weep. Though it was scientifically determined her tears were only sap, believers continued to trek to the dusty backyard to worship...