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...London's Wembley Pool, the biggest (12,000), noisiest crowd of the week turned out to watch Local Hero Henry Cooper tune up for a title fight with Patterson by fighting the U.S.'s seventh-ranked Zora Folley-whom Cooper had beaten in 1958. Folley had other ideas. Trimmed down to a rock-hard 194 lbs., he sliced Cooper's tender face with slashing jabs in the first round, split open his nose and left eyebrow. In the second round, blood streaming from his wounds, Cooper fielded a right with his prominent jaw and sank...
When Ruth Gikow decided to study art at Manhattan's Cooper Union 29 years ago, she had one goal in mind: "I wanted to do commercial art and make a lot of money so I could have a French maid." Today, Ruth Gikow, who is the wife of Painter Jack Levine, still has no French maid, but the sacrifice has not been in vain. Last week 26 of her paintings were on view at Manhattan's Nordness Gallery-forthrightly figurative works that mostly seemed as personal as pages from a diary...
...Nose. At Cooper Union, she studied under Regionalist John Steuart Curry, but learned most from the Union's director, Austin Purves, a painter who is now almost forgotten. Purves insisted that the ear and the nose, and not the eye alone, were important to the artist, so he would bundle his students off to Klein's department store or the Fulton fish market "to paint things we could smell." Ruth hated it; she wanted to be a fashion artist. One day at Central Park zoo, a fellow student drew an animal with a moving expression of fear that...
...STAN COOPER...
...cell is now lost, she noted, as man has invoked science to complete the disruption of nature's organic unity. Disintegration and chaos, disorder and eternal sorrow. We got up from our seats to leave Sanders a little stunned, not quite sure how she had gotten from Fenimore Cooper to the horror...