Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From the turn of the century until World War II cut off the supply of foreign riders, six-day grinds were a big-time sport with big-town sports. The races used to pack such vast arenas as Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, and the smoke-heavy air vibrated with cheers for Italy's Maurice Brocco, Belgium's Gerard Debaets or Australia's iron man, Reggie McNamara. Song pluggers used the occasions to intone their wares. Pickpockets, purse snatchers, coat grabbers and assorted Broadway hoodlums worked overtime all week. Such flashy spenders as Peggy Hopkins Joyce...
...containing twelve coupons, each of which was good for a 10? or 15? discount on Swift meat products ranging from dog food to frankfurters. Grocers, tipped off by Swift's six-page advance ads in trade magazines, bustled to buy LIFE and Look. They figured that they could turn a Swift profit, since the coupons alone in each 15? Look and 20? LIFE were worth $1.45, plus a 24? redemption bonus for storekeepers, plus a chance at winning a prize in Swift's $26,600 sales contest. Armed with spare coupons, grocers could thus claim refunds on purchases...
Collector's Spree. The new World House Galleries is the brain child of TV-Station Pioneer Herbert Mayer. 48, who three years ago sold the last of his TV stations* for $8,500,000, took off for a European vacation that soon turned into an art-collecting spree (including the purchase of 51 Rodin sculptures). With a new hobby on his hands, Collector Mayer decided to turn it into a business, set up a network of buying agents and talent scouts. His goal: to exhibit "the best contemporary art from as many nations as create...
Massed tier on tier in the galleries are the canvases of dozens of topflight artists from 13th century Italians to 19th century French impressionists. Sample wholesale lots: 27 Rembrandts (including The Re turn of the Prodigal Son, often called his best work), 40 Rubens, at least a dozen each of Cezanne and Picasso.* The walls are magnificently cluttered. "The emphasis in Russia is not on art as we know it," explains Callisen, "but on culture and the history of culture. So where we would put some things in storage, they hang everything...
...Francisco and Los Angeles, Westerners turn out to hear lectures on Zen by Alan W. Watts, a former Anglican priest and now a professor at the American Academy of Asian Studies. In Manhattan, the First Zen Institute of America is holding three meetings a week for some 100 members. In an aromatic garden in Kyoto, the first Zen study center in Japan for Westerners was formally opened this month. Last week its builder, Ruth Fuller Everett Sasaki, Chicago-born widow of a Zen teacher, announced that enough new U.S. students were expected so that a new meditation hall would have...