Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dinner before the museum opening, Director of Collections Alfred Barr tapped his wine glass for attention, rose to reminisce: "I think I first heard the name of Bob Motherwell back in the 1940's from the surrealists, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, André Breton. And to hear them describe him, he was then like some young Lochinvar come out of the west." Last week Robert Motherwell went back in triumph to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art to receive its greatest accolade: a one-man show, with 87 canvases, collages and drawings, including two outsize abstract canvases never...
...power source is Chairman Charles Bluhdorn, 39, who has a hard-driving philosophy: "You have to break doors down-anybody can walk through them." A penniless World War II refugee from Austria, he began as a $15-a-week clerk in a Manhattan cotton-brokerage firm, rose to other jobs and founded his own coffee-trading office at 23. Within ten years he had made more than $1,000,000 buying coffee from the Brazilians and selling it to U.S. processors and chain stores. Casting around for a more stable business in which to invest his profits, he came upon...
...Today, by contrast, Japan's heavy industry, particularly steel and shipbuilding, accounts for the major portion of the country's exports. Japanese yards have 7,800,000 tons of new ships under construction or on order, will sell 75% of the total to foreign buyers. Overall, exports rose 27% last year to $7.2 billion, are expected to increase another 19% this year...
REPORTED TO BE ALIVE by Grant Wolfkill with Jerry A. Rose. 377 pages Simon & Schuster...
...Jerry A. Rose, to whom Wolfkill told his story and who wrote this book between other assignments in Asia. Rose went to South Viet Nam in 1959 at the age of 25 to teach English at the University of Hue, stayed on to become a part-time correspondent for TIME and LIFE, a contributing editor for the Saturday Evening Post and finally, a special representative to the office of the Prime Minister. He and Wolfkill were close friends...