Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bravo to Artist Artzybasheff for his excellent background for the O'Dwyer cover! And a big Bronx Cheer to whoever penned the cover story. He should go back to Lower Slobovia...
...habits aren't very different from those of other mammals. Most of man's sexual behavior that is now considered abnormal, he said, is "part & parcel of our inheritance as mammals and is natural and normal biologically." It is, he said, scientifically sound to look to mammalian background "as sources of human behavior." He was seconded by Yale Psychologist Frank Beach, who has studied sex habits from shrews* (mouselike mammals) to humans. Dr. Beach reported that homosexuality is common among some animals...
...poster, Look ran a double helping of cheesecake on its cover: a hairy-chested youth and a golden-haired girl, lolling in bathing suits more fiction than fact. The whole magazine also had a new look. A new art director, Merle Armitage, had restyled the covers (with a white background), cleaned up the cramped typography, and given the magazine a fresh, well-ventilated...
...Money. Last week the 102nd paper signed up to buy Joseph and Stewart Alsop's column of erudite background, sound and sometimes brilliant opinion, and feedbox gossip. The editors got two pundits for the price of one: while Joe was realistically sizing up Dewey and Stassen in Oregon this month, Stewart was appraising the "twilight terror" in Czechoslovakia...
Mississippi-born Composer Still's music has a homespun quality, but it is as varied as his own background of Scottish, Irish, American Indian and Negro ancestors. He tries to avoid repeating himself ("after all, an architect wouldn't want to design the same kind of house all the time"). Making movie music (at $250 a day) ceased to interest him because he felt that he had to do "my work in my own good time, and in my own good...