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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broadcast day fully 90% of our musical selections are picked by listeners; less than 50% of the selections could properly be classed as rock 'n' roll. Our news department is particularly chagrined at the short shrift of "trickle of news every two hours . . ." Please let it be known that at WAPE there is service as well as showmanship, duty as well as diversion...
...Africa hangs a backward, poverty-stricken strip of land inhabited by leopards, crocodiles and some 1,300,000 camel-and goat-herding nomads. Back in the19th century after the British, French and Italians helped themselves in imperial fashion to slices of the coast bordering Ethiopia, this desert patch was known as Italian Somaliland. In Mussolini's heyday it became a bridgehead for his conquest of Italian East Africa. Now after years of somnolence, it is back in the news-once again as a trouble spot. The Italians, who kept postwar control of their onetime colony under a temporary...
...Oldest and best known is scholarly, affable George Cohen, 40, whose The Serpent Chooses Adam and Eve caused something of a sensation at last year's Carnegie International. In that, as in most of his canvases, Cohen combined deliberately clumsy, pictographic painting with collage, pasting in a round mirror and a hank of Eve's hair. Mirrors, he explains, "are the supreme illusion; they mock both the viewer and the painting." Cohen teaches at Northwestern University, talks well about other men's art but bogs down when it comes to his own nightmarish visions. "I begin with...
...Heel of a Shoe. The woodprints that flourished in 17th-19th century Japan were called Ukiyo-e, meaning "Picture of the Passing World." They were just that: pictures of solemn actors, sprightly geishas, idyllic landscapes. Japan's modern wood-printers turned to semiabstract compositions, employ many techniques known to their forerunners; e.g., they often wet their paper to obtain a certain texture, but also experiment with leaves, string, the heel of a shoe to get special effects with an ingenuity Western printmakers have not displayed...
...their ineffective battle against it. Cartoonists drew scientists discovering that it was the green layer observed on Mars. In grocery stores, on commuter trains and over back fences throughout the South, East and Midwest, it was a gripping topic of conversation. Subject of all the excitement: Digitaria sanguinalis, better known to the frustrated suburban lawnkeeper as crab grass. In 1959 the wiry, octopus-like weed and its pesky cousins have had a vintage year-and so have the gardening and seed companies that help the homeowner in his never-ending battle against...