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...Otto Dix, in his series of etchings "The War," (Der Krieg), transcends his subject's initial impact and there-by penetrates it. War's waste, fatigue and death become something mystical, even poetic. The starkness of his black-and-white tones produce an awareness far more effective than Kathe Kollwitz's unbounded sentimentality or Ernst Barlach's heavy-handed portrayal of heavy-handed destruction. And the transcendence involved is not emotional but aesthetic...
...Cornetist Nick LaRocca defined the new music he and other members of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band had played at Reisen-weber's restaurant in Manhattan during World War I. When word about the shocking doings at Reisenweber's got to the Victor Talking Machine Co., the Dix-Jelanders were asked to come up and cut two sides. They blared two of their liveliest numbers-Livery Stable Blues and Dixie Jazz Band One-Step-into an eightinch acoustical horn, and thus became the creators of history's first jazz record...
...newspapers, from New York's garter-snapping Daily Mirror (circ. 842,023) to the sobersided Portland Oregonian (181,910), only a dozen fewer syndicate clients than carry sister Ann Landers, whose real name is Mrs. Jules ("Eppie") Lederer. This makes Abby the fourth-ranking U.S. lovelornist, after Dorothy Dix, Mary Haworth and Ann Landers...
...through Rittenburg and Coach Bill McCurdy that Courtney came here to train. Rittenburg was a teammate of Courtney's at Fort Dix and later, on the First Army team...
...Bill Martin again became a national symbol-this time at $21 a month. In one of the first New York groups to be drafted, Martin, then a bachelor, went good-humoredly off to Fort Dix, helping, as Selective Service Boss General Lewis B. Hershey said, "to convince people that we were dealing off the top of the deck it helped to have some aces and kings come off as well as deuces." Martin was a full colonel when discharged...