Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sucked In. In Lodi, Calif., saddened by the plight of the fellows inside the local jail, outsider Jacob Hohnstein tried to spread a little cheer by siphoning in slugs of booze, got caught at it, became an insider himself...
...Primus, who had just graduated in biology from Manhattan's Hunter College, was ringing doorbells in search of a laboratory job. She did not find the job, but she walked into an NYA group that started her dancing. Last week, at the University of the Dance at rustic Jacob's Pillow, Mass., where Pearl Primus was a guest artist, students saw one of the U.S.'s most spectacular dancers in terrific action...
Russia's Army is bigger than those of all other nations combined, said General Jacob L. Devers, chief of Army ground forces, in a soldiers and satiors rounion in Salem, Illionis, yesterday...
...past years, students at Jacob's Pillow had rubbed elbows in an intimate rural way (over dishes and housework) with such greats of the dance as Martha Graham, Alexandra Danilova, Founder Ted Shawn. This year they got a close-up look at another of the foremost U.S. dancers and teachers. Charles Weidman's name was not so well known to the U.S. as some with less talent. Sol Hurok had never ballyhooed him-but the experts will let him dance in their all-America team any time...
...fortnight ago at Jacob's Pillow, students saw a trial run of four of his new sketches: Weidman mugging and leaping grandly as the "owl who was God," or the harried male of The Shrike and the Chipmunks. Weidman hopes to dance the Fables on Broadway. Says he: "I'm not one of those arty people who think the dance is sacred...