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...Ashcan School. The job also brought him in contact with a small but brilliant group of Philadelphians who shared his attitude. Their leader was Painter Robert Henri; the others were newspaper illustrators: William Glackens, Everett Shinn and George Luks. All of them eventually moved to Manhattan and set up shop...
Even to a man with a tin ear, oil-drum music is an advance over the ashcan-and-bottle music of the Trinidadian '305. By pressing out graded circles in the bottom of a section of drum, the Invaders get a melody job (the "ping-pong") with a range of two octaves. Other refinements: "alto pans," "tune-booms." and "bass-booms." For their Manhattan audience. the Invaders beat their way through some celesta-like calypsos and a Mambo in F. One listener compared the sound to that of "a Jovian steel guitar." Consensus: certainly the best back-alley balalaika...
...Tribune does not plan to ease up in its crusade until it finishes what it started out to do-clean up Tampa. Managing Editor Newton takes the long view on the duty of a newspaper. Said he: "Today's scoop is in tomorrow's ashcan, but a job done for public betterment lives long...
Wide & Windy. The next generation of reportorial artists, concentrating on city life and emphasizing its seamy side, never approached the consistent quality of their four great predecessors. But they had long outlived their early scornful nickname: the "ashcan school." Now the work of such men as Henri, Luks, Glackens and Bellows looks far more lively than grim. And the school produced a couple of the show's near masterpieces: Bellows' wide and windy Up the Hudson and Glackens' sparkling Green...
...laws written to its pattern; both major parties in their 1948 platforms had avowed their devotion to legislation against discrimination because of race or religion. Last week, under the special rules of "Calendar Wednesday," it became obvious that the FEPC bill was going to be trucked in, like an ashcan of nitroglycerin, for consideration on the floor of the House.¶ The halls and galleries were jammed with FEPC supporters (though very few Negroes) and the floor was crowded with Congressmen when the House convened at noon. Southern Democrats and twoscore Republican allies, who had kept the bill...