Word: jo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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P.C.A. had lived in a foggy world since it was formed last December by merging Dr. Frank Kingdon's National Citizens Political Action Committee and bearded Sculptor Jo Davidson's Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions (TIME, Jan. 6). P.C.A. had refused to exclude Communists, had never had too clear a program...
...Anthony (1820-1906). But Gertrude did not hesitate to drag in characters of other eras-notably a pair of folks archly named Gertrude S. and Virgil T. (Gertrude did not look like Miss Stein, nor Virgil like Mr. Thomson). Another, born of her delight with G.I.s, was called Jo the Loiterer. Hapless Andrew Johnson turned up, groaning throughout, "It's cold weather . . . wherever I am." And John Adams sniffed, "Do not pity me; I am an Adams and not pitiable...
Gertrude Stein's opera digressed wackily through a wedding and the "mystery of wealth and poverty" sung by Susan B. and Jo the Loiterer ("I used to think I was poor, now I think I am rich and I am rich, quite rich, not very rich quite rich . . ."), but it also had a Stein-like message. Sang Susan...
Josephine Baker, expatriate American whose bouncy scorchdancing made her the rich brown toast of Paris musicomedy for years, got ready for her third marriage. Husband No. I had been a Negro tap dancer, No. 2 a wealthy French manufacturer. No. 3-to-be: Jo Bouillon, top-ranking white French jazz bandsman...
...years ago, one of the most fetching things about Street Scene is its street scenery: Jo Mielziner has once again designed an ingenious three-story tenement fagade...