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...Yalie: When Ice Hockey Coach Bill Cleary '56 and team Captain Lane MacDonald '88-'89 presented President Bush--Yale Class of '48--with a Harvard Hockey sweatsuit and t-shirt Wednesday, the president didn't even wince. And when Cleary told Bush that his brother-in-law is former Democratic Party Chair Paul G. Kirk '66, the Republican president simply laughed. According to members of the national championship team, the chief executive and former Harvard-basher was "pleasant and hospitable" throughout the team's visit to the White House. As Cleary said, he was very cordial...
Many residents mourn the passing of historic homes like Crosby's. Among the homes that have vanished or will soon vanish are those that once belonged to Ray Milland, Jeanette MacDonald, James Coburn and Jack Benny. "We're losing a great deal as a culture," says Alan Bergman of the Los Angeles-based Victorian Register, a real estate agency that specializes in vintage homes. "We're losing our heritage, the tolerance for things that are different...
Benton's own abstract paintings may not have been quite up to the level of Macdonald-Wright's, though it is difficult to judge them fairly, since he destroyed so much of his early work "to get all that modernist dirt out of my system." But it was abstraction that underwrote the system of Benton's later figurative paintings -- an abstraction based on bulging, serpentine figures derived from Michelangelo. From him, and from mannerist sources like Luca Cambiaso's block figures and El Greco's twisty saints, Benton assembled the theory of kinetic composition that would eventually alter the walls...
...curious case because, despite all the hollering he and his admirers produced about down-home values and art for the common man, he was no kind of naif. He had studied in Paris before World War I and was closely tied to the expatriate avant-garde there, especially Stanton Macdonald-Wright, whose "synchromist" abstractions were among the most advanced experiments being done by any American painter. In New York in the early '20s, Benton dressed (as one of his friends would remark) like "the antithesis of everything American," and had a peripheral relationship to Alfred Stieglitz and the circle...
Fernandez postponed his dream of pitching in the majors, just as Harvard's Lane MacDonald and Allen Bourbeau postponed their dreams of playing professional hockey for one year to graduate from Harvard...and lead the Crimson to a national championship...