Word: colorations
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...fans, more than half of them black, to the 32,000-seat Ebbets Field. What those present saw was a piece of history in nine innings: a black man played in a major league game for the first time. Of course, Jackie Robinson didn't break the color line in baseball all by himself. He needed Branch Rickey to do it. The president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers was the one with the will and the power to upend the idiotic myopia of the sport's other sachems. (Were they afraid that blacks couldn't play baseball...
Jackson Pollock couldn't sleep. The next night would see the opening of the first gallery show devoted to his new drip paintings. For months he had flung lashing tangles of color onto canvases laid across the floor. Literally slapdash, yet as intricately woven as a Persian rug, his pictures pointed the way to the future--or would if anyone noticed. So Pollock sat up late with his sister-in-law. To comfort him, she read his palm. He was going to be a very famous painter, she promised...
DIED. STAN BRAKHAGE, 70, experimental filmmaker; of cancer; in Victoria, Canada. By linking disparate images without narrative and by using the film surface to scratch, color, write on and paste collages onto, Brakhage aimed to provide a free-associative poetry on film. His 1964 film Dog Star Man was listed by the Library of Congress among the most important films ever made...
...Botswana is safer yet. At least that's the conclusion of AON, the global insurance-and-risk-management firm, which for the first time is offering its Global Credit and Political Risk map to the public, at aon.com/us/politicalrisk The 2-ft. by 3-ft. map assigns a color to each country that denotes its overall risk of economic downturn, political violence and government intervention in private business. The five levels of risk range from green (low risk) to orange (very high risk). AON considers, among other things, the experiences of its corporate clients and surveys of international trade insurers...
...tale of the four Benetton siblings--Luciano, Giuliana, Gilberto and Carlo--who launched their clothing empire by knitting sweaters at the kitchen table at night, has become legendary in Italy; they currently rank among Europe's wealthiest families. Color was the key to their success. Luciano, 67, the eldest, has said he couldn't bear to see young women in the 1960s dressing like their mothers and young men still decked out in gray. The bright, cheerful knitwear they produced was a hit in Italy, and soon they were exporting around the world, their products increasingly accompanied by provocative...