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The show brings sports paintings up to date with Fletcher Martin's picture of Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano bloody-nosed after the second Ezzard Charles fight. And with Elaine de Koonings' wild scramble titled Basketball Players, the show makes another surprising point: even some of the abstract expressionists...
When the political shot and shell have cleared away, the U.S. may be grateful that a hard-nosed, unpolitic man of principle was in charge of its farm economy during the painful transition from wartime bonanza to peacetime reality.
Billy put on a vaudeville show for the Lord and organized it on big-business lines. Apart from his habitual pitcher's stance, he had a repertory of skits which included 1) the unrepentant drunk; 2) the "red-nosed, buttermilk-eyed, beetle-browed, peanut-brained, stall-fed old saloonkeeper...
Studebaker abandoned the bullet-nosed, sports-car look designed by Raymond Loewy, in favor of a car that more closely resembles those of the Big Three. President James Nance thinks that an independent auto cannot compete by radical design, must be built to look like other cars. Packard offers minor...
Though the X-1A was the only one left of its kind, the Air Force still has two modified versions of the record-shattering plane in the X-1B and X-1E, and only three days after the mishap, it announced that its far more advanced experimental Bell X2, already...