Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skillful needle has earned him paintings by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Massimo Campigli, Alberto Magnelli and Hans Hartung, as well as sculptures by Diego Giacometti and a collage by Clave. The exchange began by accident 14 years ago, soon after the mustachioed little tailor, an expatriate Italian from the mountain village of Bellona near Naples, and his wife Slava opened shop on the Riviera. One day the Florentine ceramist and painter Manfredo Borsi ordered a suit. "If you prefer," Borsi imperiously suggested, "I will pay you with one of my paintings." Sapone did not really prefer. "I had never looked...
...never tells me what he wants," says Sapone. "He leaves that entirely up to me. I search for special cloth in Naples, or I wander through mountain villages in Yugoslavia and Italy looking for 'homemade' materials like Dalmatian felt or an Abruzzi velvet. Picasso loves velvet." Once Sapone delighted Picasso with a pair of cuffless, horizontally striped trousers. "I've always wanted them," said the master. "Courbet had a pair just like them...
...veins of Americana have been more assiduously mined than the Western fur trade. From Francis Parkman to Bernard De Voto, scholars have unearthed the routes and reminiscences of the "mountain men" in the 19th century, devoting volumes to their exploits. Surprisingly, Novelist and Popular Historian Walter O'Meara's anecdotal appreciation seems to be the first to deal with the lives of the women of the fur traders and mountain men. Not surprisingly, their relationships with women turn out to be as rich and varied as the rest of the mountain legend...
...Maurer movie camera at the third-stage S-4B rocket, which had just been separated from the spacecraft. The resulting pictures show the receding rocket gleaming in the sunlight against a black sky as the blue, cloud-mottled earth hovers below. (Minutes earlier, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory scientists atop a mountain in the Hawaiian Islands had used a Baker-Nunn telescopic camera to shoot a spectacular picture of the S-4B, about 120 miles high, blasting Apollo out of earth orbit toward the moon...
Died. Vladimir Tytla, 64, one of the original Walt Disney cartoonists, who helped enthrall millions of youngsters in the 1930s and '40s with his airborne pachyderms (Dumbo), fearsome giants (Night on Bald Mountain) and great spouting whales (Pinocchio); of a stroke; in Flanders, Conn...