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...Willen De Kooning or Jackson Pollock--in postwar American art, those were the heavyweight contenders. Pollock's drip paintings took art to a place beyond the brushstroke. The prestidigitations of de Kooning's brush summoned it back again. Even the powerful critic Clement Greenberg, who would turn against de Kooning for his failure to renounce figure painting, had to admit the guy's appeal. "De Kooning really took a whole generation with him," Greenberg once wrote. "Like the flute player of the fairy tale...
...author of the article, Liz Willen, didn’t expect to find a public university competing with the likes of an Ivy League school...
...were really surprised with Wisconsin, but you always expect to see Harvard at the top,” Willen said...
...uncertain stock market, many buyers have turned to autographs and other tangible investments like diamonds, antiques and rare books, thus driving up prices. "In the past five to seven years, business has more than doubled, even tripled," says Doris Harris, a Los Angeles autograph dealer. Reports Sara Willen, another Los Angeles dealer: "Good manuscripts on the average go up 10% to 25% a year." But there is a more enduring reason than their investment potential. Says New York's Charles Hamilton, a leading figure in the autograph market: "There is this excitement about owning a permanent relic...
Harvard temporarily closed the gap with two runs in the bottom of the third. Tom Bergantino singled to lead off. Then Navy's first baseman, Mike Willen threw John Simourian's ground ball down to second, but the ball hit Bergantino in the back and glanced off into centerfield, putting men on second and third. Bergantino scored when John Getch grounded out and Simourian came home on Smith's wild pitch...
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