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...rarity. Painter Still is so cantankerous that he flatly refuses to sell his work to any collector or museum not of his own choosing, and then is likely to offer only one painting at a take-it-or-leave-it price. The only other museums to own Still's work are the San Francisco Museum of Art, which gave him his first one-man show in 1943, and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, which had to wait two years after it devoted a whole room to Still in 1952. Says Still...
...inspired the Ford Foundation last week to appropriate $315,000 for the commissioning, playing and repeat performances of new symphonic works, and the performances of ten contemporary U.S. operas (by the New York City Opera). Critic Frankenstein found the provision for symphonic performances insufficient. Briskly turning himself into a one-man foundation, he called on conductors to repeat works they had introduced during the last five years, offered a $100 prize for the conductor who repeated the most...
...Rembrandt self-portrait as "a bloody work of genius" and abstract art as "a kind of measles." Last week Sir Gerald pulled off a bloody triumph of his own. Up on the walls of the Royal Academy's galleries were 291 of his works in a special one-man exhibition, the fourth in the academy's history to be given a living artist. Included was a large (60 in. by 50 in.) nude, The Sphinx, which the Royal Academy had banned for 27 years as too shocking...
...Purdue Coach Jack Mollenkopf. "I'll say no more." He didn't have to. Whatever his secret was, it touched off a fire under his injury-ridden Boilermakers. Sophomore Quarterback Ross Fichtner, starting his first game, called his shots like a pro; Fullback Bob Jarus was a one-man wrecking crew. Between them, they clanged out a 20-13 victory over the top-ranked Spartans of Michigan State...
...letter was printed at the height of Adenauer's recent re-election campaign. After criticizing the chancellor, it asked that Dulles investigate Germany's "one-man rule" before backing Adenauer's re-election...