Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While big-league baseball was reorganizing its rosters, baseball writers were riffling through their memories and replaying the past. Most Valuable Player in the National League, they decided, was Milwaukee Outfielder Hank Aaron. But the vote was as close as the pennant race, and St. Louis' First Baseman Stan Musial, National League batting champion (for the seventh time), finished only 9 points back. Most Valuable Player in the American League: the New York Yankees' bad-legged Outfielder Mickey Mantle (batting average for the season: .365), who limped in 26 points ahead of Boston's Ted Williams...
PIETER BRUEGEL was a lowbrow in art. In an age when the Italian Renaissance was sweeping all before it, Bruegel kept his Dutch feet firmly on lowland ground, stuck close to everyman's taste. His zestful love of practical jokes, wise saws, old proverbs and the daily life in field and village earned him the nickname of "Peasant" Bruegel. But history has proved that Bruegel was dealing with an eternal response of man that lies deeper than the shift and change of artistic fashion. Collected by princes and merchants alike, he has remained one of the most popular artists...
Instead of covering an auto wreck, Ben Reddick soon learned, he had been present for the last act of a murder. The fishstand owner who had come close to drilling Reddick had just pumped three bullets into his wife. He had turned on the gas jets in their apartment and was gunning for a neighbor when the building exploded. Pursued by the crazed husband, the neighbor saved his life-and almost cost Reddick his-by diving to the ground at the newsman's feet...
Leogene Graffteiner is really four pianists: Gary Graffman, Leon Fleisher, Eugene Istomin and Jacob Lateiner. The first three are close friends, and all share an extravagant admiration for an ancient Steinway concert grand known as "Old 199." Because they pass it from one to another while touring in the U.S., they refer to its current player by a composite name. Graffman & Co. today are in the forefront of a group of young U.S. pianists who have recently made the perilous leap from prodigy to professional artist...
Died. George T. Bye, 70, topflight literary agent who pushed the writing careers of such notables as Rebecca West, Deems Taylor, Alexander Woollcott and Charles A. Lindbergh, encouraged his close friend Eleanor Roosevelt to start her syndicated column "My Day"; after long illness; in New Canaan, Conn...