Word: homers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single by Tom Tresh promptly scored Mantle, and the Yanks added two more in the next inning to make it 4-1. The Cards made it 4-2, but a ninth-inning homer by Phil Linz, followed with hits by Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, and Pepitone, and a sacrifice fly by Tresh, put the game out of reach...
...Cards entered the sixth inning trailing the Yanks 4-2 as a result of Tommy Tresh's two-run homer in the second. But Ken Boyer singled and with one out, Shannon whacked a 450-foot blast off the left-field scoreboard in St. Louis' Busch Stadium...
Frantic Frenchmen. The Met's greatest stroke was its 1961 auction purchase of Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer; armed with backing from Redmond's board, Rorimer outbid the well-heeled Cleveland Museum with the highest known price ever paid for an art object, $2,300,000. But that deal involved only money, of which the Met has access to loads ($104 million-plus in assets, exclusive of its art riches); other triumphs are more intriguing. Four years ago, the Met stirred outrage in the Gaullist Parliament by quietly acquiring, for possibly...
Museum Director Perry T. Rathbone has arranged a simultaneous exhibition of paintings by John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer which were on loan to the White House during JFK's occupancy. A rare 15th century Hafner Ware bust, presented to the Museum by a New York collector as a memorial to Kennedy will also be exhibited...
...would be the Hamptons on the eastern end of Long Island, an area best known as a golfing, sailing, tennis-playing, tanning and drinking preserve for the rich. A 40-mile stretch of sea, sand and shore towns, the Hamptons have attracted artists ever since the 1870s, when Winslow Homer went there to paint impressionistic oils of ladies dipping their toes in the surf. Last week the art colony was at its midseason busiest. The oldest colonial, visionary Architect Frederick Kiesler, 67, was at work on a 46-ft. sculpture despite a recent heart attack. Sculptor Costantino Nivola...