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Died. Adolph Gottlieb, 70, one of the founders of the abstract expressionist school of painting along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning; after a long illness; in New York City. Rebelling against the social realism that dominated painting in the '40s, Gottlieb created "pictographs"-checkerboard patterns of squares filled with hieroglyphic-like imagery. In the late '50s he began a series of what he called "Bursts," huge canvases with floating blobs of color that sometimes resemble suns poised over jagged horizons. Gottlieb, whose works have sold for as much as $30,000, is represented...
...fact, I missed most of that ludicrous Mets victory. You see, one of my roommates purchased a pinball machine (an early sixties Gottlieb model called Olympics), and I'm becoming an addict. The thwack of cowhide against a Louisville Slugger just couldn't seem to compete with the clack of the free game as the shiny silver ball thanks and dings its way about a maze of gaudy bumpers and bizarre pictures...
...named David Gottlieb who, in 1930, marketed the first coin operated bagatelle board with a tilted playing surface. he called it "Baffle Board," The machine sold for 17.50, and could be played for a mere penny. It caught on fast and soon Gottlieb's idea was copied by a Chicago businessman, Raymond Alone, who came out with his own version called "Bally-Hoo." His company, Bally Manufacturing Company, along with Gottlieb's are now two of the biggest names in the business...
Writers for the magazine will be undergraduates with backgrounds in psychology, Gottlieb said. He added that faculty and graduate students would serve as guest contributors and advisers for the publication...
...Gottlieb said a title for the publication would be determined at a meeting with interested students from participating colleges later this month...