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Western jazz has long been a steady favorite. The Charleston is back in vogue, suggesting that reactionary elements are freely at work in the pop music field. Prague's favorite tune last week was Come on Grandma, Teach Me the Charleston. Sample lyric: Grandma, leave the pullover alone. There is still plenty of time till Christmas. I'll knit half a yard for you tomorrow, If you come and teach me the Charleston...
...market. On its first front page, for instance, the Observer ran a great big rocket picture for Junior, a story about a tough general and guerilla warfare for Dad, a fashion article for Mom and Sis, and a piece on what's happening to city churches for dear old Grandma...
...Houghton, Mich., dentist, Ferries has been swooshing down snow-covered slopes ever since he was five. "We lived on a hill overlooking the town," he remembers. "It wasn't much of a mountain-just a ridge with a 400-ft. vertical drop. But grandma lived in town, and I used to ski downhill to pick up goodies." Still only a part-time skier, Ferries was good enough at 14 to place ninth in the slalom at the U.S. junior championships. In 1957 he packed off to Aspen, Colo., to polish his technique. He improved so quickly that he decided...
...Shadowless World. At her best. Grandma Moses was no ordinary primitive. She had in her mind a shadowless world of dancing images, and these she put down on Masonite, placed flat upon her kitchen table, with a freshness of vision that seemed eternally young. She worked too rapidly, often too carelessly, for excellence; but this very spontaneity was part of her appeal...
Died. Mrs. Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma") Moses, 101, famed U.S. primitive painter; of what her doctor described as "just wearing out"; in Hoosick Falls...