Word: impresarios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illustrator while still in his 20s. A trip to Paris in 1907 dizzied, delighted and diverted him from the ranks of dull respectability. Sparked by the ideas of the cubists and the fauves, he came home to join the circle of young pioneers around the great photographer and art impresario, Alfred Stieglitz. Already in Stieglitz' stable were Alfred Maurer, Arthur Carles, John Marin, Marsden Hartley and Max Weber. They all knew they were good, though the public had no inkling...
...Maid, was the belle of the sporting world"), "Under 21" ("Some wonderful things can be done with a boomerang"). Among the new magazine's regular contributors: Tennis Player Bill Talbert, Sport Writer Red Smith, Football Grandee Herman Hickman, Nature Humorist John ("Tex") O'Reilly, Novelist and Boxing Impresario Budd Schulberg...
...Genius of Art Tatum (Clef LP). Five recordings produced by Jazz Impresario Norman Granz in testimony of Tatum's famed skills. Pianist Tatum, 44 and nearly totally blind, can make any song sparkle with his dextrous, imaginative ideas. Spontaneously, he ripples off complex chords, melodic figures and moods that should make the most devoted Liberace fan cry with shame. Some of the 34 titles: The Man I Love, Body and Sold, Yesterdays, My Last Affair, This Can't Be Love, and I'm Coming, Virginia...
Conductor Jordá is delighted with his new job, calls his orchestra "superb," and makes deep bows to Papa Monteux for assembling it. So far, he says, he has not troubled to ask what his salary will be: "That will be handled by my-what do you call it?-impresario...
Brooklyn-born Torero Franklin, now 50 and scarred by repeated gorings, has hung up his matador's suit, but he is still deep in his old sport. Nowadays Franklin is content to be the impresario of the bull ring at the small (pop. 18,000) Andalusian city of Alcalá de Guadaira, where he can teach the youngsters, and drink manzanilla with the oldtimers in the quiet evenings at the town casino. Last week Seňor Franklino, as he is known at Alcalá, outraged the aficionados...