Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Resolved, That the social and economic advantages to be gained from nationalization of basic industries would be overwhelming" is the subject. Defending the Council in the negative will be William P. D. Bailey '46 and Edwin J. Jacob '47, veteran debaters who also took the stand for the Council in the debate against Cambridge last March...
...Young Jacob Lawrence was shy, but he felt at home; he had long ago decided to become a painter. His mother had encouraged him when he was still a kid: "It kept me off the streets." Within a few years, his flaming, semi-abstract pictures of Negro life hung in half a dozen top U.S. museums, and won him three Rosenwald fellowships. Only 30 now, Jacob Lawrence is the nation's No. 1 Negro artist...
...back of the room sat a quiet young Negro, listening while the others talked. It was during the depression, and almost every day Harlem's WPA Art Center was crammed with artists and writers. "It was my education," says Jacob Lawrence. "I met people like Saroyan before he got famous. They all used to talk about what was going on in the world. Not only about art, but everything...
...John Jacob Astor dazzled Manhattan's El Morocco nightclub by exhibiting Wow-wow, her Chihuahua, in a new look. Wow-wow-a male-had a diamond ring on each paw and a sapphire choker around his innocent neck...
...Jacob Coopersmith's definitive edition of Handel's mighty Messiah, newly published (Carl Fischer, Inc.; $1.25), was last week greeted by U.S. music scholars a one of the most important contribution of its kind in years. The Messiah, he had found, had never been properly performed since Handel's day. Original scores and pages had been misplaced. Performers and singers had arbitrarily changed notes, keys and instrumentation to suit their own peculiarities. Handel himself, who wrote the 3½-hour-long oratorio in one 24-day burst, had reworked it several times to accommodate the talents...