Word: jo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole carnival romp was a washout. Recording Artist Kay Starr's anvil voice (with a nice built-in sob) led a lusty counterpoint melody between town and clown. But Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong as bandmaster and oldtime Circus Comic Buster Keaton were so much wasted tanbark. The "original" Jo Swerling-Hal Stanley music and lyrics had a too-familiar ring. ("If fate should hurt you/ I won't desert you/ We'll be together/ In stormy weather...
...Health Service Hospital at Carville, La.-the national leprosarium-based its extraordinary system of allowing patients to lead near-normal lives. Under Dr. Frederick Andrew Johansen, who spent 29 years there, Carville helped a whole generation of leprosy patients to feel (psychologically, at least) like normal human beings. "Dr. Jo" let patients marry and live together, encouraged outsiders (provided they were over twelve) to come in and play golf or softball with the patients and dance with them at socials...
...Jo retired and was succeeded as director by Dr. Eddie Monroe Gordon Jr., a Health Service officer with 19 separate assignments in 28 years of service. Newcomer Gordon improved Carville's physical plant and administration, but set out to change the hospital's famed, widely admired system. He ordered the hospital staff to stop fraternizing with patients, discouraged visits by the public, upped minimum age for visitors (other than relatives) from twelve to 20. The worst blow to patients: a ban on games, sports, and dances between patients and nonpatients...
...tapestries, it was only a question of time before their art would wind up on the floor. Last week Chicago's Art Institute was offering a look at that brightly decked future: 13 limited-edition (ten copies of each) rugs designed by such artists as Pablo Picasso, Joán Miró, Jean Lurçat, the late Fernand Léger and U.S. Mobile Sculptor Alexander Calder...
...tried-and-true stars, have been scouring the boondocks of musicmaking, in a search for new talent they can call their own. Result: the biggest crop of new names in years. So far, none of their finds is likely to jeopardize the record sales of such old reliables as Jo Stafford and Dinah Shore, but some are well worth a listen. Bethlehem puts its money on Helen Carr (Why Do I Love You) and Terry Morel (Songs of a Woman in Love); EmArcy displays the modern phrasings of Helen Merrill; Storyville has uncovered a sweet-husky voice on Introducing Milli...