Word: jam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week 21 Zerbe paintings were on view in a Manhattan gallery, and a Boston gallery displayed the work of 31 Zerbe students and twelve of his admirers. Manhattan critics went overboard for Zerbe's crisp, quiet cityscapes, still life jam-packed with unlikely objects, sombre circus pictures, and portraits in costume such as Aging Harlequin (see cut). According to the New York Times, the show was like "a crescendo roll of drums . . . puissant, clear, resourceful, uncluttered." As technical fireworks, each painting had proper sparkle. Did any of them also "mean anything"? Said Zerbe complacently: "If you are bright...
Down with Fantasy. As in a traffic jam, the slowdown was felt all along the line. A leading Atlanta department store stopped its practice of "open ordering" (i.e., buying anything that wholesalers will sell). New York retailers began to tell manufacturers to deliver by certain dates or they would cancel the orders. They were no longer willing to take goods any time in the future-and get caught with top-heavy inventories. (This week the New Jersey Bakers Board met to consider a general shutdown to force flour prices down...
Fletcher Martin is city editor of the Louisville Defender when he's home but he also roamed widely as a war correspondent. He played end at Louisville Municipal College but he got in the middle of this jam, as editor...
Philosophy A texts and additional Government tomes may be moved to the 175 seat Boylston Library, as the book jam is slowly unsnarled...
...more spirited group of local jam session devotees are raking valiant efforts to entertain themselves. WHCN puts on several hot record shows a week including a special Battle of Jazz between the two and four beat advocates. Whether or not the program has created any serious dissensions in the student body as a whole, is not as yet known but there is a definite possibility that the Network building may split down the middle over the question. No one should betake himself to that vicinity on Friday nights without at least a steel helmet...