Word: hands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Standards. Toledo-born Art Tatum played his first professional engagement at 16 as a dance-band pianist. Two years later he left the band to go on his own as a soloist. "The other boys used to razz me," he says. "They said I had no left hand, so I made up my mind to show 'em." Tatum is still sensitive about criticism of his bass, but can claim, with the enthusiastic approval of his fans, that he does more with his left hand than most pianists do with both...
...think art should be shocking, necessarily," says Painter Paul Cadmus, "but it should be disturbing." Cadmus, who combines a steady hand with a jaundiced eye, had never failed to disturb people and earn a living by it, but his first exhibition of paintings in twelve years, which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week, made his earlier works seem almost sissified...
...keep his editorial hand in, Dr. Fishbein was taking on more duties as consulting editor of Doubleday & Co. and its medical subsidiary, the Blakiston Co., for which he had long worked in his spare time. He will continue as medical editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Hearst's American Weekly, in his spare time will write a syndicated daily column and two monthly columns, and hold down teaching posts at the University of Chicago and University of Illinois medical schools. Somehow, Dr. Fishbein also expects to have time for a lecture tour and for work on a layman...
...hand grenades and mortar shells brought home by World War II veterans are not the only souvenirs which sometimes blow up later. Sergeant Wilson Posie Noles, an Air Force ground crewman from 1942 to 1945, found that microscopic, disease-causing organisms, unknowingly picked up, can behave the same...
There was high drama in the denunciation of the Soviet Union by Britain's Hector McNeil while, beside him, Vishinsky sat, chin on hand, glowering through horn-rimmed glasses, only moving to make a penciled note or rasp a quick order over his shoulder to a subordinate. Again, there was a moment of tense comedy as McNeil (looking remarkably like Arthur Godfrey) listened with polite incredulity to Russia's Amazasp Arutiunian, whose hunch-shouldered delivery and darkling glance were strongly reminiscent of the late Fiorello La Guardia...