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Warshaw takes the speed and racket of modern city life as matters of course, believes that a painter needs to get the same dash and smash onto his canvases. His test of a picture: "Can a spectator, after driving 30-miles-an-hour up a neon-lit, billboard-splattered street, stop off at a gallery and see a painting without slowing down visually?" He hopes that, with his own work, the answer will always...
Last week it looked as if best-selling Gordon Jenkins' formula would keep right on pleasing the U.S. public. In its "Record Possibilities" chart, popularity-wise Billboard picked Jenkins' latest release, Tzena, Tzena, Tzena, a fast-paced Hebrew folk song with a Jenkins lyric, as the week's new record most likely to succeed in weeks to come...
Last week plump, 25-year-old Maggie Whiting herself was one of the big names in popular music. Her recording of Slipping Around, made with Western Singer Jimmy Wakely, was Capitol Records' top seller for the past year (1,750,000 copies). Billboard announced that next to Evelyn (A Little Bird Told Me) Knight, Maggie was queen of the jukeboxes...
...aero mechanics, however, proved surprisingly indigestible. They called off their strike and set out to fight Beck with billboard displays, radio programs and full-page newspaper advertisements. They described Beck's newly founded local at Boeing as the "foul-hatched, illegitimate offspring of a power-crazed dictator . . ." They also had the impertinence to use heavy-handed humor in bearding the heavy-handed czar. One ad featured a drawing of an old-fashioned privy which was entitled the "Beckhouse." Another pleaded: "Don't go Beckward...
...ginghamed housewife who thought "they could do better," looked with a jaundiced eye at the shorthanded post-impressionist manners of the art-school artists. Sniffed she: "Art is done for beauty. Not that grotesque stuff. A picture is supposed to speak its own piece, the same as a billboard. If you have to stop and ask questions . . . it's no good...