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...high school at Glen Clove, L.I., Samuel Riley Pierce Jr. wanted to be a songwriter: "It's one of those things you grow out of when you grow into others." He soon put away his unpublished scores, grew into law and government. Last week Lawyer Pierce, at 41, became the first Negro elected to the board of a major U.S. manufacturing company-U.S. Industries Inc., producer of automation equipment, with 1963 sales of $96 million. He is a partner in the Manhattan law firm that handles U.S. Industries' labor matters. A star halfback and Phi Beta Kappa...
...master has pupils that he has never even met. One is U.S. Painter Richard Anuszkiewicz (TIME, July 19). Another is Bridget Riley, 32, whose visual torments are on view in London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. Precise black and white herringbone lines constantly wriggle, peak and valley, in an embodiment of vertigo. Visitors have become nauseated and dizzied by Riley's intense, chattering images that force their eyes to jerk to and fro. Not simply geometric tricks, they are larger than sheer optical delusions: orderliness clashes with chaos in the precarious proximity of black and white bands. They also...
Math Book Muse. A slight, trim, brunette bachelor girl, Bridget Riley is now a Jill-of-all-trades in the London office of the advertising empire of J. Walter Thompson. She spent her youth during the blitz in Cornwall and Lincolnshire, which she calls "a fascinating horizontal landscape, terrifically recessional." After three years at the Royal College of Art, she began following her pointillist god Seuiat and the interpenetrating planes of Italian futurism. Now she lives in a bone-white flat with white-painted floors as stark as her work. She designs on graph paper, often resorts to math books...
...visual research is often challenged as phony. Yet in the permutations of pattern that sometimes hurt and sometimes enchant human vision lie the power and the challenge to change reality. As Bridget Riley says, "I wish somebody would give me a big wall to destroy. I mean, to make it no longer seem a wall...
...Riley went out in favor of Joe Gertz as the sixth started. Jim Tobin singled and promptly stole second as Gertz's throw took two bounces to arrive. Dockery got on on a fielder's choice while Tobin went to third; a passed ball scored Tobin and Dockery came in moments later on Luther's sacrifice...