Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jazz albums were fairly esoteric items until 1950, when Columbia's first Benny Goodman collection made a smash success. Since then, a dozen new jazz labels have sprung up (mostly on the West Coast), and by last week the major record companies were up to their spiral grooves in the hot and the cool. On its new "X" label, RCA issued ten LPs, first of a whopping series of 100 LPs dubbed from "vault originals...
Painter John Decker may score in Fowler's book for his good cooking, but on the day I visited his studio he had an open can of some foodstuff . . . the blue and white label read "Fix FOR HUMAN USE." It was issued by the WPA. The dark walls of Decker's depressing menage were covered with "brown-sauce" paintings-one of which was Queen Victoria with a W. C. Fields head [see cut]. Another, after Da Vinci, had Fanny Brice's face...
...been its president ever since. As such, he lobbies for his association's 60,000 retailer members, and is proud of it. Helping the cause of the small businessman, he believes, is the best way to promote long-term prosperity in the U.S. His favorite label for himself: "Mr. Retail...
Last week, on the request of retiring President Lee, the trustees named a special committee to investigate the whole Beaty affair. But John Beaty was carrying on as usual. From his pen came another pamphlet, plaintively crying that the label "antiSemitic" was nothing but a smear aimed at people who are genuine antiCommunists. It certainly was not a tag that could possibly apply to good old John Beaty. "I have no feelings except feelings of friendship," said he, "for pro-American Jews...
...that is functionally efficient and esthetically pleasing. So is an eye-catching, striped pointer showing the way to the Northland shopping center in Detroit. Among other examples of good sign design: the simply lettered yellow-and-red Shell Oil Co. emblem and the handsome, red-and-gold store-front label of F. W. Woolworth, which has been in use since 1885. The Woolworth sign is one of the favorites of Mildred Constantine, the museum official who organized the show. Said she: "Just look at those wonderful, round, juicy Os -like sculpture...