Word: reubens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard--Bow, Robert Webb; 2, Alfred Goodale; 3, John Atherton; 4, John Sundqvist; 5, William Geertsema;6, Leroy Rouner; 7, William Bliss; Stroke, Reuben Richards; Cox, Warren Clark...
...Sculptor Reuben Nakian is a short, bristling rock of a man with a pronounced stutter and an utter inability to feel anything mildly. As a rising artist back in the '30s, he nursed a great passion for contemporary heroes. He did powerful portrait busts of some of the men around F.D.R.-Henry Wallace, Rex Tugwell, General Hugh Johnson-and modeled Babe Ruth into an eight-foot giant with the air of an arrogant Hercules. Critics admired his work, but then something happened and Nakian all but disappeared...
Last week, now 54 and getting grey, Reuben Nakian was in a Manhattan gallery with an exhibit he was certain was worth saving. Working at Newark's School of Fine and Industrial Art, the center of a group of noisy, eager students, he has turned out 15 large and small statues in two years. All are of Europa and the bull done in natural clay washed over with red, black and pastel glazes. The work looks rough and half-finished, is built of abstract masses of streaming, fluted clay with little or no regard for anatomy. The angry figures...
...does not feel the Jayvee is set yet, however. "Like last year, the second boat may wait until the middle of the season to resolve itself," he said. Both John Atherton and Tom Peterson are in Stillman infirmary now with mononucleosis, so Love is minus two experienced starboard oars. Reuben Richards and Bob Webb are making the Princeton trip as spares...
...Soating: bow, Bob Webb; 2, Steve Sundquist; 3, Bill Bliss; 4, George Kinnell; 5, Jim Slocum; 6, Tom Hagoort; 7, Tom Peterson; stroke, Reuben Richards; cox, Warren Clark...