Word: renee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the contestants in last week's U.S. National Championships were equipped with standard rackets made of laminated wood. But a trio of U.S. players came armed with new "T2000" steel rackets,* designed by France's Rene ("The Crocodile") Lacoste, and marketed in the U.S. by the Wilson Sporting Goods Co. Gene Scott, 29, a Manhattan lawyer who never before had gotten past the quarter-finals of any major tournament, astounded the experts by reaching the semifinals before losing to Australia's top-seeded John Newcombe. Clark Graebner, a 23-year-old Ohioan who only...
...Logic sometimes outruns truth. It was a plausible assumption, in your article on Rene Lacoste [Sept. 1], that the French champion gained the sobriquet, le Crocodile, because he "played so fiercely." Actually, he was called that because of his saturnine poker face, and it would appear that his more vivacious daughter has inherited something of that same crocodilian countenance, if one might judge from some of her expressions while addressing a golf ball. There was never a more machinelike player than Lacoste in his heyday. He won so consistently because his ground-strokes could not be faulted...
...shirts, 50% in France and the remainder in the crocodile-alligator world beyond. This month, as Lacoste's factories reopen after a vacation layoff, the order backlog has reached 200,000, and Chemise Lacoste has also gotten an unexpected bonus. Catherine Lacoste, 22-year-old daughter of Founder Rene Lacoste, last month outplayed the pros and, as an amateur, won the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament in Hot Springs, Va. "I don't know if it's because my daughter won or not," says Rene Lacoste with a smile, "but everybody seems to want...
...Died. Rene Magritte, 68, the most appealing and least pretentious of surrealist painters; of cancer; in Brussels. A short, stocky Belgian, Magritte called himself a "secret agent," alluding to the disparity between appearance and reality in both his life and art. He painted as he dressed, mostly in banker's black and grey, composing his scenes with photographic accuracy. But what impish fantasies: cigar boxes puffing smoke, a leaden sky raining tiny, bowler-hatted figures, the leaning tower of Pisa buttressed by a feather, Botticelli's Primavera superimposed on the back of a businessman's overcoat. "People...
...prints). Each kamagraph looks as though the artist had painted it by hand. The French call this type of work a "multi-original," because the machine can work only with a painting painted for it on a specially treated canvas plaque. Lichine & Co. have so far recruited Ernst, Rene Magritte and Edouard Pignon for their stable of pilot kamagraphers, plan to put their output on sale in the U.S. in the autumn, priced...