Word: kuhn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes before a Miami Beach press conference, called last week to announce the new commissioner of baseball, one reporter asked an official if the name that was leaked earlier was indeed the choice of the team owners. "Yes," the reporters were told, "it is Bowie Kuhn, but please, gentlemen, act surprised." They did-but it was no act. Sportscaster Red Barber's reaction was typical: "Who? I never heard...
After two months of dickering and dallying, the owners of the 24 major league teams were in agreement on only one point when they met in Miami Beach: the new commissioner should come from "inside baseball." Kuhn, 42, the attorney for the National League since 1950, was so far inside that he was lost in the shuffle of names mentioned for the job, which included everyone from Stan Musial to Hubert Humphrey. Kuhn's appointment was as big a surprise as the owners' previous choice, William D. Eckert, a retired Air Force general who was so far outside...
...kinds in this show. The Degas chalk landscapes are very unusual--ephemeral, misty, and soft. Six Boucher studies are included, among them a wonderful study of hands, and a head by Bernini and one by Watteau. Contemporary drawings by Giacomo Porzano ("Man with a Cigarette") and Walt Kuhn ("Study for the painting 'Roberto'") are very stark and striking...
...Kuhn gave up teaching in 1964 to concentrate on the museum and on writing. His books include Catalogues of German Paintings in American Collections and German Expressionism and Abstract Art. He received the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany in 1959, for the latter publication...
...Kuhn plans to remain in Cambridge and to continue his research on iconography in German Reformation art and on the personification of death...