Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tapping U.S. collections only, the exhibition turns up some unexpected contributions along with old favorites. Goya was a bullring aficionado. Winslow Homer, while covering the Civil War, took time out to paint Zouaves pitching quoits in camp. Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins painted scullers and wrestlers; George Bellows not only haunted the fight ring painting boxing classics (Dempsey and Firpo), but also painted tennis at Newport and polo at Lakewood. In Ground Swell, Edward Hopper caught every yachtsman's thrill at passing the last buoy and heading seaward in a light breeze...
This is a good Princeton team with adequate depth in the line and backfield, but it is far from the Tiger teams which have performed at Cambridge in recent years. It is certainly not so strong as the Homer Smith team which edged the Crimson on an equally wet Saturday in 1953, 6-0; it couldn't touch the Dick Kazmaier eleven which slaughtered a helpless varsity...
...worldly-wise Ulysses (played impeccably by Walter Fitzgerald). Though thinking wars unpreventable, Ulysses vows this time to prevent one. But a warmongering poet whom Hector angrily throttles cries out that Greek Ajax has throttled him; Ajax is mauled by Trojans; and Giraudoux's story passes over into Homer...
...Trib Chicago correspondent. Close to a dozen other staffers, including John ("Tex") O'Reilly, Trib nature columnist and former war correspondent, have also recently left. By far the biggest loss to the Trib will be felt later this month, when the news staff's brightest star, Correspondent Homer Bigart, 47, two-time (1946, 1951) Pulitzer Prizewinner, moves over to the New York Times. Bigart, who had never worked for any other paper in 27 years as a newsman, admitted that he had "sweated blood" over the decision. Said an old friend: "Homer's resigning in complete rebellion...
...York Yankees, paced by Bill Skowron's three-run homer, forced the series to go the seven-game limit by downing the Brooklyn Dodgers 5 to 1 in yesterday's tilt before a capacity crowd at Yankee Stadium...