Word: barbershop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parker, Ariz. (pop. 456), Andy Hale put a sign in his barbershop: "Japs Keep Out You Rats," ejected Raymond Matsuda, a Nisei veteran, wounded in Italy. . These were isolated instances, in small communities. But most of the U.S. Japanese on the West Coast lived in such small towns. And in the larger cities, the Hearst press kept up its anti-Japanese screams. California's Governor Warren, setting the tone for the vast majority of West Coast citizens, promised every effort to keep the return of the Nisei orderly...
...Armed Forces Institute has its way, the venerable art of barbershop singing will soon reach an unprecedented degree of literacy and technical perfection. To teach G.I. Joe how to sing close, the Institute last week published a manual entitled How to Sing and Read Music. It contained more new tricks of sound musical pedagogy than civilian pedagogues have thought up in a long time...
...manual was worked out by U.S.O. Music Division Chief Raymond Kendall, with Houghton Mifflin's William Spaulding. It is to be used in connection with nine recordings of popular barbershop numbers. At first the record plays a selection emphasizing the lead, tenor and bass successively, to give the G.I. student the idea. Then it supplies the missing parts, so that the G.I. can learn in turn to sing lead, tenor and bass. By the time he is through the cycle, the G.I. has become an all-round barbershop expert, able to sound off, at the clearing of a throat...
...Manhattan last week, Patrolman Joseph Gardner took into custody a modern exemplar of this excruciating old breed. Officer Gardner got his evidence by spending an evening with one eye glued to a crack in the window shade of Peter Gorgak's barbershop on Third Avenue. Through this peephole he could see in the barbershop mirror an incongruous sight: Mr. Gorgak sitting in his own barber chair having his teeth drilled and dentaled up by a stranger...
...life-raft to Executive Jon Hall, "the most girl-shy millionaire in Who's Who." In the course of convincing him that she loves him for himself alone, she leads Mr. Hall through some unusually footloose footage. She gets him ensnarled in a brawl in a low-life barbershop which specializes in reconditioning shiners. She goads a Job-like bus driver (Buster Keaton) into leaving his dreary route for a gently berserk tour of the moonlit seashore. She takes Hall to San Diego's Zoo where, with very sensible leisure, the camera forgets all about the plot...