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...Princeton has a bit more than a one-man show this year. The Bradley mystique lured a number of high school basketball stars to Nassau two years ago, and the Tigers are benefiting this year from the presence of such sophomores as 6-9 Robbie Brown, 6-6 Ed Hummer, and hotshot backcourt man Gary Walters...
...cargo of crude oil from the fields at Moonie, Queensland, to a refinery in Kwinana, Western Australia. The tanker's long coastal voyage earned it a special distinction: it was the first Australian ship ever to carry Australian oil. Its journey also marked the high point in a one-man crusade to save Australia's $118 million coal industry from an onslaught by foreign oil companies, which have been saturating the market with vast quantities of low-cost, waste-product fuel oil from their Australian refineries...
...Trident Marine's one-man submarine ($3,995); it can dive to 150 ft., travels underwater at 3.7 m.p.h., runs on twin 500-watt electric engines...
Last Duchess. Perhaps Peggy's finest moment came during her World War II years in Manhattan, when she opened her now famous "Art of This Century" gallery. There she gave one-man shows to a group of such young unknowns as Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, thus foster-mothering the generation that was to make the U.S. a world art power. "Abstract expression began in my gallery," she says. "You couldn't explain it. It was like a sudden burst of flame." Peggy fed the fire as long as she could resist...
Kenneth Noland, 40, who studied with Abstractionists Ilya Bolotowsky and Josef Albers at Black Mountain College, produces work that is harder edged, but his thinly applied geometries was not immediately popular. Noland's first two one-man shows, in 1956 and 1957, went untouched. But by 1959 the tide had changed. In the past year, five major museums have bought his canvases, and today he commands prices averaging...