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...question last week, the nation's biggest auction house, Parke-Bernet Galleries, sold off a group of 24 paintings that had been collected by the late advertising executive Alfred William Erickson and his wife Anna. Among the paintings was Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, which bears the unhappy nickname of "The Million-Dollar Rembrandt." Though there were other spectacular pictures in the collection, Aristotle had been the conversation piece of the art market since Parke-Bernet got the job of auctioning...
...wagon, Fulbright plans to make at least 40 speeches by mid-December, before audiences ranging from the Altrusa Club of Little Rock to the United Church Women of Fort Smith. The reason for his urgency: Fulbright faces his most serious opposition since he defeated Senator Hattie Caraway and Governor Homer Adkins in 1944. Democratic Representative Dale Alford, who went to Washington two years ago as an effective segregationist vote getter, has been redistricted out of his seat and has ambitions for Fulbright's. Governor Orval Faubus, finishing a record fourth term as Governor, might be tempted by the larger...
This slender volume-in which Poet Lowell assembles his imitations of 66 "important poems" by 18 poets (from Homer to Pasternak) in five languages (Greek, German, French, Italian, Russian)-suggests that, in Lowell's case at least, one man's muse is another man's poison. About half of the poems still show the smudge of translation; about half read like English originals composed by a talented foreigner. But a few of them roil and hiss with the vigor and brilliance that makes Lowell, at 44, one of America's major minor poets...
...Homer and the Sappho are routine, and the randy-romantic Villon ploddingly pedestrian ("Oh where is last year's snow?"). The quiet golden glow of Leopardi's L'infinito, one of the supreme sonnets in all literature, is messily extinguished; the wild-strawberry innocence of Hebel's Sic Transit acquires a chemical tang of quick-frozen fruitiness; and the fine dandiacal glitter of the Baudelaires is spotted with phraseological mudballs-"this obscene beast," for instance, is scarcely a felicitous rendition of "ce monstre délicat...
...record, Slugger Maris was still looking for his first Series hit when he came to bat in the ninth inning of the third game. With the score tied 2-2, Maris finally connected with a hit that took its place in baseball history with Babe Ruth's homer in the 1932 Series and Cookie Lavagetto's 1947 double.* A home run, it broke up the ball game and broke Cincinnati's heart. "That was the turning point," said Manager Hutchinson later. "We never were the same after that. We got no lift, we had no spark...