Word: sellouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided to model himself on Rembrandt, Goya, Chardin and U.S. Painter Thomas Eakins ("one of the greatest portraitists of all time"): "It was a matter of looking and looking and then working and working." The small public that buys pictures approved the results: his Manhattan show was a near sellout...
...Center Johnny Kerr (178 points) and Forward Irv Bemoras (177 points). The team is so well balanced that no Illinois player ranks among the Big Ten's top eight, yet five are in the top 30. Every Illinois home game is a fieldhouse (capacity: 6,500) sellout, and Illinois students are limited to three games a year...
...This week St. Bonaventure met Duquesne, No. 5 (14-0), in a game which involved the only two major unbeaten teams in the nation. The game was played in Pittsburgh's Duquesne Gardens (a privately owned arena not connected with the school) and was a 5,600 sellout. Duquesne had to turn back 25,000 ticket requests; St. Bonaventure claimed it could have sold 5,000 tickets around Olean...
Iowa, No. 9, which last week upset third-ranked Illinois, 73-68, to put both teams in a tie (5-1 apiece) in Big Ten competition. Iowa Center Chuck Darling (6 ft. 8 in.) paced the winners with 26 points. Iowa's fieldhouse (capacity: 15,500) is a sellout for every conference game...
...week's end Severino's pictures were a sellout, his schooling virtually assured. Said Italy's leading art weekly, La Fiera Letteraria: "There is an inspirational force and power of imagination here which we have never seen in other exhibitions of the kind." Gallery Director Chiurazzi immediately began making plans to send the show on to Milan and Paris. Severino took his early success calmly. Looking for the first time at the work of another successful artist, 70-year-old Pablo Picasso, he observed: "Why, he doesn't even know how to draw. He must...