Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cage's sounds are slowly catching on with concert performers, two or three of whom have already learned how to jimmy bolts and screws among the strings of their own pianos. Most music lovers are still doubtful. Explains Cage: "People want the newest thing in their houses and automobiles...
A woman who wears her 50s with an air of long-faced gravity, Cissy learned her business the hard way: by getting trimmed the first time out. She paid $500 for a would-be Hildegarde of the pre-jazz era, only to discover, after the act had flopped, that the...
Cole knew the wilderness well. His father was an Englishman who opened a wallpaper shop in the frontier town of Steubenville, Ohio, in 1820. An itinerant portraitist dropped in one day, kindly taught young Cole how to make paint brushes from pig bristles. Soon the boy was wandering from town...
Where's Charlie? C.E. himself learned his production lessons early. Born in Minerva, Ohio, where his parents were schoolteachers, he had a childhood which many another boy would envy. The buff brick Wilson house was flanked by the homes of two locomotive engineers. They were his heroes who told...
Out of Season. In San Juan Bautista, Calif., Catrino M. Lugo aimlessly fired a .45 pistol near the Casa Maria social hall, learned too late, after his speedy arrest, that a score of policemen were having a banquet there.