Word: hyperion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Manhattan's Hyperion Press put out a $10 book for the Christmas trade which was likely to strain its readers' patriotism. It included some of the best -but many of the worst-of the most widely published pictures recently produced in the U.S. Portrait of America reproduced four Satevepost and two New Yorker covers, a spate of paintings for ads, and a few art-gallery pictures. It led off with a four-page primer on U.S. art history by Book Critic Bernard DeVoto who, being a literary man, thinks of art as illustration...
Thoroughbred Pensive, by English-bred Hyperion out of Penicuik II (pronounced pennyquick), is far from infallibly great, but with Jones' conditioning he is head and withers in front of his closest challenger. With Conn McCreary up, they make the best combination of honest runner and smart rider in the game. Barring accidents, Pensive will probably beat the great Whirly's money mark by the time he is turned out to stud...
Brahms: Song of Destiny (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Bruno Walter conducting, with the Westminster Choir; Columbia; 4 sides). Brahmsians have always rated the Schicksalslied, based on Hölderlin's Hyperion's Song of Destiny, among Brahms's most stirring scores. Performance good, recording fair...
...when youthful Lucius swept a tableful of dishes to the floor of Billy Bander's Eating House, crying: "Come, come, Bander, give us your best delft and pewter, Bander, none of this rude crockery!" But Yale authorities were annoyed when Lucius appeared conspicuously in a box at the Hyperion Burlesque Theater, cried: "I am Professor [Henry Hallam] Tweedy of the Yale Divinity School!" and tossed an empty bottle to the stage. Shortly thereafter, Lucius left Yale and entered Harvard...
...into the homestretch (Newmarket's course is dog-legged, not oval, up-&-down, not flat), railbirds saw no Lambert Simnel, no Fairy Prince. In front was Owen Tudor, a belittled 25-to-1 shot, owned by Mrs. Macdonald-Buchanan. Coming from behind, the bay son of the great Hyperion (1933 Derby winner) had zoomed past the field like a Spitfire, finished a length and a half ahead of Morogoro, owned by the Maharani Saheb of Kolhapur...