Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making a simulated brush stroke, but I've removed the idea of something full of passion." He believes that painting in an era of mass media should be impersonal. To heighten this effect, he has even had some of his works executed in porcelain enamel baked on steel panels, turned out these works in editions of six to eight...
...control of Liverpool-based Reads Ltd., Metal Box's only real competitor. Holding onto a 40% interest is the hoary textile-making firm of Courtaulds Ltd., which was soundly trounced by Metal Box after acquiring Reads in 1959. Under Courtaulds, Reads has turned profits on such lines as steel drums and paint cans, but lost heavily on food and beverage tins. With the arrival of American Can, the company is embarking on a fiveyear, $14 million expansion program in hopes of improving its fortunes...
Died. Rufus Wysor, 81, a metallurgist who became president of Republic Steel in 1937, directing the company's wartime expansion, then resigned in 1945 to take on the formidable task of planning the revival of Germany's shattered steel industry, later went to Japan from 1947 to 1948 to do much the same job as a private consultant; of Parkinson's disease; at Sea Island...
...between science and art. Old science is no longer useful, but art of one age is just as good as that of another." In arranging the show, he tried "to pounce on any contrasts or similarities." Baroque Italian cupids by Guido Reni hang beside Isamu Noguchi's stainless-steel Man in Space. A gemlike 15th century English marble Pietà contributed by Seward Eric (P.A. '10), is set off by a terra-cotta Nigerian 20th century oba's (a ruler's) head, contributed by Whitney P. Foster...
Died. Joseph Elmer Cardinal Ritter, 74, prelate of the archdiocese of St. Louis and one of his church's leading advocates of reform; of a heart attack; in St. Louis. Frail in body, but pure steel in will, he was the man who as Archbishop of St. Louis in 1947 stunned segregationists by ordering the integration of local parochial schools, and threatened to excommunicate opponents when they proposed legal action. Named a cardinal in 1960, he emerged at the Second Vatican Council as the unquestioned leader of progressive forces among the U.S. hierarchy, later executing many reform measures, giving...