Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pronunciation: Dag (as in bag) Hammar-shiuld. His own advice to Americans: "Call me just Hammer-shield. That is, after all, about as near as most people get. Anyway, it's exactly what my name means...
...over 40 feet, which probably won't be good enough outdoors. The discus event is in fair shape, with Art Siler and Bob Morrison both around 130 feet. The javelin is the biggest problem, since Pete Morrison, capable of throwing 170 feet, will not be out this spring. The hammer, so far, is being handled by Win Smith and Bob Keith, but both boys need a lot of practice...
...German Assemblies badly split on the bill, American warnings hand opposition parties a perfect theme song: Dollar Diplomacy. And even if the unfinished pact is ratified, future amendments will be that much harder. Knowing that they will get no second chance to junk the treaty, each member nation will hammer in its own proposals and insist that they stay. Development of a European army will drag until this bickering is terminated...
...past 30 years, the neighbors have always known when Saul Baizerman was at work. To fashion his copper sculpture, he hangs huge sheets of shining copper from the ceiling of his Greenwich Village apartment, flails away at them with a hammer until the ringing metal bends and twists, forms dimpled bas-reliefs of prancing nudes, cherubic children, and heroic figures from mythology...
Last week, after 30 years of trying, Sculptor Baizerman, now 63, was having a little well-deserved success. In Minneapolis, the Walker Art Center devoted six rooms to Baizerman's biggest exhibit ever: 35 hammered pieces, from his muscular Unknown Soldier to a tender Suckling child and a long panel of intertwined nudes. In five weeks the gallery counted 5,000 visitors. Three of Baizerman's copper bas-reliefs were sold, and the Art Center has already made plans to send the show on to museums in Des Moines, San Francisco and Ottawa. Saul Baizerman was on hand...