Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Special interest will center on the performance of Norm Bruck in the dash. Bruck, who has improved greatly since the beginning of the year, is being counted on to take up slack in the outdoor dash events...
...latest thing among younger British painters is a violent swing back to realism. Like their young contemporary, French Prodigy Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 27), they are concerned with the drab reality of everyday life. Their favorite subjects are pots and pans, pubs, dingy outdoor scenes, and almost anything handy piled on top of the kitchen table. Hence their collective title: "the Kitchen Sink School...
Middleditch's own orbit ranges from vigorous, sweeping outdoor scenes that left one observer feeling that a ripening wheat field "might start rippling before your eyes" to harshly lighted, strong-colored still lifes depicting such mundane subjects as a bucket on a stool and a bunch of sunflowers (see cut). Says he: "The point about us is that we paint what we see around us. But we try to give it a new vision." The British Arts Council is so impressed by the New Realists' new vision that it is making the Kitchen Sink School Britain...
...major occasion was saved for March 11, Sunday-a combined celebration of the Pope's 80th birthday and the 17th anniversary of his reign. Special missions from 25 countries will join in a Special Pontifical High Mass in St. Peter's, and there will be outdoor ceremonies for some 80,000 representatives of Catholic Action and other groups. As an extra tribute to the Pope, who has done so much to bring his church to the workingman, the cornerstone will be laid for a new church in Rome, dedicated to honor Pius' 80th birthday. The name Pius...
...along Florida's Gold Coast in the late 1920s, none was more ornate than the Boca Raton Hotel & Club, 42 miles north of Miami. Put up by Utilitycoon Clarence H. Geist as the world's flossiest private resort, it cost $10 million, had 450 rooms, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, two 18-hole golf courses, dozens of fountain-filled gardens and a beach-front cabana that is bigger than most hotels. During the Depression, Geist ran Boca Raton as his private hobby, happily paid its staggering deficits. But when he died in 1938, the club fell on hard...