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...never was very robust, and now, at 64, he is growing noticeably pale and frail. But tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Showman Billy Rose is still the oldtime dynamite. Traveling to Jerusalem for the seventh time in three years, he was overseeing construction of his greatest philanthropical production: a $500,000 garden to display his $1,000,000 collection of statuary as part of Israel's Bezalel National Museum. "The Guggenheim is nothing compared to what my museum is going to be," boasted Billy. And why was he giving away his collection? "After I'm gone...
...hair was translucent and slippery as spun glass, his skin white and soft as the flesh beneath a woman's breast, bluish in certain folds and hollows; his eyes gleamed liquidly as pale green jellyfish in shifting rays of sunlight. He lay curied and dreaming like a foetus swimming in formaidehyde...
KENZO OKADA-Parsons, 24 West 57th. When Okada came to the U.S. in 1950 with a full-fledged Tokyo reputation, he turned to abstraction "the Western way." Now he executes his paintings with knives, fingers, rollers and brushes, but their pale images still have a Japanese serenity. Through...
Track fans who had hoped for a 17-foot pale vault by John Pennel or a 4 minute mile by John O'Hara saw Pennel fall to clear 15 ft. 7 in. and O'Hara trail Larry Rawson through most of 3 sluggish quarters before sprinting away to win in the lackluster time of 4:06.3. John Velses took the pole vault with a jump of 16 ft. 1 in., topping his own Garden record...
...works by William Blake can the romantic prophet who enthroned man's imagination be seen so amply. There are now 278 Turner oils. Before Rothenstein took over in 1938, the subtle, chromatic late Turners such as Norham Castle, Sunrise were kept in storage. Now their pale fire blazes across five Duveen Rooms...