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...Rodeo Cowboys Association championships in 1955. With $26,656 of prize money won on the rodeo circuit so far this year, Oliver was recognized as king of the ropers everywhere but in Texas. Said one show-me Texan: "We been followin' Jim Bob's tracks through the brush for years. Don't try to sell us on no Idaho dirt farmer...
Worried by Jim Dunda's ability to puncture Harvard's pass defenses almost at will last Saturday, Yovicsin took his boys outside on a muddy and rain drenched field to brush up defensive maneuvers...
...Andrew Wyeth-America's poet-painter-whose every brush stroke defines the poignancy of man's condition, comforts him in turn with beauty wrought from dried grass and chilling winds...
...Gogh and Gauguin-that art must spring from anguish. Not that Renoir had an easy time; at the beginning of his career his paintings were ridiculed along with those of other impressionists, and at the end of it he was twisted by a rheumatic paralysis that made each brush stroke an effort of will. What was so unusual about Renoir was the grace with which he bore the weight of genius. He married once and well, reigned without thunder as the head of a large, adoring household, and could always take time to speak to a stranger or persuade...
...struggle with paralysis ended one day in 1919 when Renoir was 76. Kept to his room at the end by a lung infection, he worked for several hours on a still-life of anemones, then motioned for someone to take the brush from his stiffened hand. "I think," he said, as he looked at what was to be his last painting, "I am beginning to understand something about...