Word: pollock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Army's second string backfield, which will probably see a good deal of action this afternoon, in formidable. In addition to Pollard at fullback, the Cadets have exceptionally speedy halfbacks in Vic Pollock and Jack Martin. Gil Reich, the regular defensive safety man, quarterbacks the second backfield on offense...
...painting did not seem to be making much of a hit abroad last week. At Venice's "Biennale," the U.S. pavilion (featuring the wild & woolly abstractions of Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock -TIME, June 12) was getting silent treatment from the critics. It was even worse in London, where a U.S. exhibition of "symbolic realists" (Paul Cadmus, Peter Blume, Walter Murch, Andrew Wyeth, et al.) was on; there the critics spoke...
...remainder of the show was selected by the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred H. Barr Jr., whose taste differs sharply from Frankfurter's. It is not the expressionists, Barr maintains, but the abstractionists who have the ball. Among Barr's choices were paintings by Jackson Pollock, who dribbles paint onto his canvases from above to create what Barr calls "an energetic adventure for the eyes," Willem de Kooning, who gets equally helter-skelter results with a brush, and Arshile Gorky...
...tobacco barn near Dillon, S.C., gleefully built a fire of hay and leaves beneath it, then waited for it to put out the fire. It didn't-at least not before the spectators had to run out. And after that the barn burned down. ¶Mrs. Janice Pollock, who was chosen as Mrs. America of 1946 but turned down the honor (and a chance to make $2,500) to stay home with her husband, filed suit for divorce...