Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Naked in the Moonlight. In his retirement. Belmonte presided over his 3,500-acre ranch on the grassy Andalusian tableland 40 miles south of Seville. He spent good days tilting with bulls in his fields and holding private seminars in his own bullring, coaching aspirantes, reminiscing about the old days. In Seville, he hung out at sidewalk bars, where he liked to tell and retell the pleasures of his first attempts at bullfighting. "At night," he remembered, "we would swim the Guadalquivir and fight the bulls in the pastures in the moonlight. That was the beautiful time, fighting them naked...
...last year, the frail health that had given him his tragic dignity began to get the better of him. He developed a grave heart condition, and he was warned to stay away from his ranch, to avoid riding horses and tilting with bulls. But with the spring, Belmonte could not stay away, could not forgo riding Maravilla, his favorite horse. An hour with the bulls last week left him with a pain so intense he feared he would die from it. Finally he made his decision. He mounted Maravilla for a last fond ride across his plain. He spoke with...
Back at the Ranch. The West Side apartment of Textile Manufacturer Benjamin Heller strikes some as an art gallery with a bed. Huge paintings by Pollock, Rothko. Newman and other abstractionists, as well as Greek and African sculptures and pre-Columbian potteries, loom everywhere-in the living room and kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. Because action painters feel a compulsion to paint big, Heller kept the apartment free of cornices, architectural decoration and ornamental bric-a-brac whose fussy detail would clash with the large-scale paintings. But, insists Collector Heller, "the idea that our apartment was built around...
...been for some enterprising detective work by Chicago Art Dealer Richard Feigen. the embarrassing case of the stolen Klee might never have come up. But one day last spring, Feigen was visiting the Colorado ranch of Walter Maitland. the son of a prominent Los Angeles collector who died four years...
...Manhattan and commutes home to Yonkers, but once the kids grow up (all seven of them) dreams of moving into The Plaza. The TIME bureaus of five cities contributed their thousands of words, and the story was researched by Dorothea Bourne, who in girlhood lived on a ten-acre ranch that is now part of the city of Los Angeles. The editor was Ed Jamieson, who has endeavored to let no bias show in favor of his native Boston...