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...Charles Sheeler, 72, learned painting from a flamboyant academician named William Merritt Chase, relearned it from looking at Piero della Francesca's art and practicing photography. Piero taught him that art needs no gestures, that it can be pure, precise and silent as a frozen birdbath and still live forever. Photography taught him, as he says, that "light is the great designer." He developed a "growing belief that pictures realistically conceived might have an underlying abstract structure." That belief did not become a certainty until middle age; once arrived at, it led him to do great things...
Sophomore Joe Tebo, a 5-foot-10 guard, is the outstanding player and high scorer for the Bruins, averaging 19.3 points a game. Another sophomore, 6-foot-3 center Gerry Alaimo, has scored 160 points. Captain and forward Charley Merritt is the team's leading rebounder although he stands only 6-foot...
Died. Hulett Clinton Merritt, 83, financier-industrialist who was a multimillionaire at 21, sold his rail and mining interests to become the largest individual stockholder in U.S. Steel, was president or board chairman of 138 different companies; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...Merritt Parkway, the main artery of southeastern Connecticut, was closed to traffic from early morning on. In addition, U.S. 1 was flooded in most localities-especially the city of Bridgeport...
LOUIS WOLFSON has added another company to the string of firms he owns or controls. For $6,800,000 Wolfson bought Connecticut's 27-year-old Savin Construction Co. (highways, bridges, industrial buildings), will merge it with Merritt-Chapman & Scott by exchanging all Savin's stock for 283,333 shares of Merritt-Chapman. Savin will continue under its current management...