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Free Swinger. A house painter's son from Payette, Idaho, Killebrew signed for $30,000 in 1954, was the first bonus baby in his club's history (the Twins were then the Washington Senators). For five years a combination of unsteady fielding and a zest for bad pitches ("I'm a free swinger") kept him on the bench or in the minors for all but 113 major league games, where a .224 batting average did little to encourage a promotion. But in 1959 the Senators posted a vacancy notice at third base, and Killebrew somehow beat...
...Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, has built a small concrete and marble pavilion overlooking an inshore bay, and Edward Durell Stone remodeled a 21-room, grey-shingled elephant on a dune where Jacqueline Kennedy used to play when she was a subdeb Bouvier. The Hamptons' most illustrious and most retiring painter, Willem de Kooning, turned architect and built his own house-over and over again. A huge, $150,000-plus modern mansion with all the daring angularity of De Kooning's art, it has a 30-ft.-high studio and a sauna in the basement, but it is still unfinished...
Sculptor Ibram Lassaw believes that the merit of the Hamptons for artists is just that they can find a studio here." Painter Lucia Wilcox, who used to turn fish thrown away by local fishermen into bouillabaisse for Max Ernst, Jean Hélion and Fernand Léger when they were war refugees in the Hamptons, says, "I am crazy about the sky. It's like Paris." City Landscapist Jane Wilson likes the change. Moreover, Art lives comfortably with Wealth. Adolph Gottlieb is a neighbor to one of the U.S.'s richest in-surancemen. He reports that...
James Cumming, a painter from the Edinburgh College of Art, drew applause with his justification of Avant-Garde experimentation. He quoted St. John of the Cross: "In order to go where one knows not, one must go by a way that one known...
Euripides wrote at the end of an era, and he re-examined the work of his predecessors with a quizzical air, rearranging, complicating, and at the same time exposing the flaws in their methods. He resembles the painter Caravaggio who worked at the tail end of the Renaissance when there was little more to say about Madonnas or Crucifixions; he substituted peasants with dirty feet for the idealized figures of Raphael...