Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monday, December 2 HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A look at the lavish musicals of the '20s...
...BOIS-Graham, 1014 Madison Ave. at 78th St. (second floor). A 20-year (1913-33) slice of Du Bois' career, ranging from his alabastrine redhead in Nude Seated on Chair through his flat-chested flappers of the '20s to his plastered blonde in Carnival Interlude. Through...
...football seems absurdly out of date. But every Sunday, in dozens of U.S. cities, the sandlots are full of amateurs with a yen to work off frustrations, sweat out hangovers or relive their younger days of gridiron glory. They are plumbers, policemen, office workers, salesmen, doctors, teachers-in their 20s, 30s or even their 40s. A very few hope to catch the eye of a scout and follow in the footsteps of Baltimore Quarterback Johnny Unitas, who strode straight from a sandlot into the pros. But most are onetime high school and college players with no illusions. They play...
...LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. These touching letters follow the novelist from the peak of precocious success in the '20s to the slough of final despond in the '30s, when he watched his wife go mad and saw his best work scorned...
Died. John Wellborn Root, 76, Chicago architect, senior partner of Holabird & Root, son and namesake of the co-designer of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, who himself changed the city's skyline in the '20s and '30s with the Palmer House, the Daily News and Palmolive buildings, pioneered in the use of glass-curtain walls with Milwaukee's A. O. Smith engineering building, which antedated Manhattan's celebrated Lever House by 25 years; of pneumonia; in North Falmouth, Mass...