Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unknown to the modern young is the pungent incense of punk and the acrid reek of exploded salute. Not even the harmless, dancing crackle and spit of lady crackers, limp in their red-gold Oriental wrappings, has lifted their Fourth-of-July hearts-not to mention the delicious danger of the thrown cherry bomb, or the thrilling thop-thop of the handheld, Roman candle...
...horse that wins six straight in California but turns out to be allergic to bluegrass in Kentucky. Fred Hansen's destiny seems more secure, if for no other reason than the fact that it has taken him years to get much of anywhere at all. A virtual unknown when he showed up for the big spring meets, Pole Vaulter Hansen, 23, startled track experts by leaping 17 ft. 1 in. in Houston last month, breaking John Pennel's world record by ¼ in. Week after in San Diego, Hansen did it again, soaring over...
Died. Ted Collins, 64, Kate Smith's manager and business partner for 34 years, a onetime phonograph-record salesman who in 1929 heard the unknown Kate sing a few lines in a Broadway show, quit his job to team with her in a company called "Kated," promoted the belt-'em-out singer into one of the hottest properties on radio and TV, making so much money (they grossed $27 million in their first 20 years) that he could indulge his passion for sports by dropping $1,000,000 on the unsuccessful New York Yanks football team...
...fashioned capriccios than to surrealism. He puts familiar objects in unfamiliar settings with cavalier abandon. Almost every dreamlike painting is set on an undifferentiated desert stage. Bearded sages tote trays of naked dolls on their heads as if bearing man's fate on their minds, while disputing some unknown subject. A balloon bobs over a barren strand carrying a pipe organ. In The Drummer (see opposite page) the images on flaking and fading billboards alternate between stage flats and solid figures in a wistful play of appearance and reality...
...award of the Pulitzer Prize for history this month startled many historians and most publishers simply because the winning book and its author were almost unknown. In fact, Sumner Chilton Powell's Puritan Village had almost gone unpublished: scholarly presses, including Harvard, had turned it down as "too specialized" before it was accepted by Wesleyan in Connecticut. With its $15 price tag, many bookstores had not bothered to stock it; hardly more than 1,000 copies had been sold; immediately after the Pulitzer announcement the book was almost unobtainable...