Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with his fiddle, brother Carmen with his saxophone and brother Lebert with his trumpet had crossed over from London, Ont. to Cleveland, fired by Paul Whiteman's records, to get their own band into the big time. It had been 20 years since the band began its first season at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel; last week, when they began their 20th straight season at the Roosevelt, eight of the original nine members of the Royal Canadians were still there. And finally it was just 15 years since Guy had started making a fortune for Decca and himself...
Safety Screen. All sorts of things can go wrong with a rocket. It rises almost vertically at first, and is put on its course by pre-set gyroscopic instruments. When the instruments do not work just right, the rocket may dive to the ground, fly horizontally, or circle back with blood in its eye toward the launching platform. At least six of White Sands's rockets have circled. One missed the control blockhouse by only about 600 feet...
...first time in a long siege, the fabulous invalid had a choice: to take its medicine, however bitter the taste, or to go on flirting with death...
Dangerous Company. Gallerygoers inspecting the 81 paintings could plot Alfred Maurer's uneasy and significant course through the first stormy years of this century. Starting as a cigar and soap-label designer in the '90s, Alfy decided by the age of 30 that art was more important than a good living; he lit out for Paris. Soon he was painting competent, easy-to-take hybrids of Sargent and Whistler, and with them winning prizes and acclaim. With An Arrangement, a low-keyed study of a girl in shirtwaist and skirt kneeling on an oriental carpet, he pulled down...
...fauves, the "wild beasts"-Matisse, Rouault, Dufy, Derain -whose daring compositions and brilliant colors were setting French art on its ear. His own academic interiors and portraits looked drab and uninspired by comparison. In 1904, renouncing his old formal ways, he flirted with impressionism and became the first U.S. artist to follow up the experiments of les fauves...