Word: dix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frantic call went out to the U.S. Army to send 1,000 soldiers from Fort Dix to help unload. Meanwhile, half a million bushels of tomatoes were in dan ger of rotting on truck, freight car and vine. A volunteer crew of more than 2,000 citizens and servicemen worked over the weekend, saved the waiting truckloads...
...military training camp at Ft. Dix, N.J. has some 400 part-time soldier art students. Every Wednesday afternoon these men meet and work in two crowded, fully equipped art schools at the Fort's recreation centers (one of these is for Negroes...
...Dix's schools are the result of one lec ture made at the camp a year ago by Director Boris Blai of the Tyler School of Fine Arts (part of Philadelphia's Temple University). Blai told soldier listeners that anyone could learn to use his hands to express himself. The men wanted to hear more. Back came Blai. He was swamped with requests, questions. Result was a Blai-promoted fund-raising and teacher-recruiting campaign. First classes were held last spring. Subjects were painting, sculpture, ceramics, lithography, bookbinding, jewelry-making. Last fortnight Russian-born Boris Blai told...
...Dix students ever colored a canvas or modeled a figure in their civilian days. Said one of them, looking up from a sensitive head modeled in clay: "I've been in the Army six years, and I've had my ups & downs. I was up as high as staff sergeant once. ... I have a hot temper. They thought when I came here that I'd never learn to make anything with my hands but black eyes. [This] is easier on the hands, and more satisfying." Another Dix artist has even refused to leave Ft. Dix...
Pretty, comical Lucille Ball, with her high pile of fiery hair, plays the movie queen who accepts an invitation to the Winsocki prom as a sound publicity stunt. This is immensely embarrassing to the kid (Tommy Dix), who never expected his invitation to be taken seriously, and to his girl friend (Virginia Weidler), who finds herself a wallflower while the cadet corps make Lucille the belle of a brawl. Before the end of it, she has been stripped to her slip by souvenir hunters and has ricocheted among as many closets as the heroines of French bedroom farce...