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...miles away, off rocky Point Judith last week, the Aussie challenger was in action too-racing against her 23-year-old trial horse, Vim. No spectator fleet dogged Gretel's wake, but day after day the crews bent to their tasks under the calculating gaze of their own, one-man selection committee, the man they call "Big Daddy": Sir Frank Packer, 55, newspaper publisher, millionaire sportsman, and boss of the Down Under syndicate that has poured $700,000 into the white-hulled Aussie challenger. Last week Packer did not even take time off to see how his opposition...
Cotton has been breaking ground since 1924, when he borrowed $150 from his father and opened a one-man real estate office in Birmingham. Within a decade he was putting up $4.000,000 office buildings, and by 1950 he had transformed the city's skyline so radically that residents began to call him "Mr. Birmingham" or "King Cotton" and joked about what their city used to look like "B.C."−"Before Cotton." Birmingham alone was too small for Cotton. He stretched out to London and overseas. By 1960, when he merged his City Centre Properties with Financier Charles Clore...
Tues., Aug. 14 Shelley Berman (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Comic Berman in a one-man monologue, which is the one thing this sometimes funny fellow does really well...
...Painter Alexander Brook, the first goal of an artist should be "to make each work more magical than the one before." This gets harder as a man gets older. But last week in the summer port of Ogunquit, Me., a new one-man show of 31 paintings by Brook shows that the magic has been pretty well distributed over a long lifetime. The show reaches back to 1924, ranges in subject from an affectionate portrait of a puppy, to broad, brooding landscapes, to snapshots of young girls caught at some moment of loneliness. Brook is a lusty personality who uses...
Pause Between a Breath. He is out of the public eye these days, neglected by the chichi but not forgotten. The excellent little new museum in Ogunquit, run by Painter Henry Strater, has in past years given similar one-man shows to Mark Tobey, Morris Graves and Andrew Wyeth. As an artist, Brook respects such innovators as his fellow Long Islander, the late Jackson Pollock, the master dripper. The people Brook resents are those faddists who promote abstract art and will enthuse about nothing else. He also has an oldster's dismissing attitude toward those younger artists...