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...pieces range in size from tiny pin boxes to giant platters, and in material from earthenware to porcelain. But it was as a maker of stoneware-that warm, quiet-colored material, lending itself to plain declarative shape-that Leach became best known. His lifelong fondness for it stems from the mingei (folk art) tradition of Japanese and Korean pottery. "We were artist potters," Leach says of his three-year partnership with Shoji Hamada, who helped him found the Leach pottery in St. Ives, "and we admired what is in folk art and nowhere else...
...turned singles-bar cruiser. Sitting in the front row is his natural enemy, Mrs. Beasley, the perfect housewife from Calumet City, Ill. Mrs. Beasley's brain is a pincushion of anxiety. "These days it's not enough for a housewife to be loving and neat as a pin," she frets. "We must be creative. There are some things you can make so cleverly that it is virtually impossible for anyone to tell if you have talent...
...Benton shows that both the city and its underworld have changed is through the type of gangster he has Welles and Margo run up against. In the old days, the dangerous guys wore white pin stripes, ran gambling houses and could stay civil with private eyes because they invariably had the police in their pockets. (They said gentlemanly things like, "I'm nice to be nice to. I'm not nice not to be nice to.") In this new world the chief hood (played by a corpulent Eugene Roche) runs a hot vehicles and appliances operation--that...
...beat. With any luck, Smith ought to finish second and could even nip the Tiger grappler if he can take advantage of Seftnor's one weakness. The Princeton heavyweight once broke his neck playing football. If he gets in trouble, he is incapable of bridging to avoid a pin. The only problem is, how do you get him on his back to begin with...
...this weight is Princeton's Keith Ely, who made All-Ivy last year as a freshman and will probably make the second team this year behind the Yale grappler who administered D'Agostino's lone loss when Sal was forced by the team score to gamble for a pin. Ely and D'Agostino did not meet because the Crimson matman missed the Princeton mat with a rib injury...