Word: lomax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Field & Stream of the Air; a five-year contract with the New York Herald Tribune for a weekly background of the news, a spot newscast backed up by canned shots of locales and personalities; contracts with Elia Kazan and Cheryl Crawford for their Actors Studio, and with Folksinger Alan Lomax, Mystifier Joseph Dunninger...
Died. John Avery Lomax, 80, pioneer collector of U.S. folksongs; of a heart attack; in Greenville, Miss. Portly, amiable Lomax recognized American balladry as folk art, traveled through cow country and mining camps, saloons 'and prisons, discovered and recorded such classics as Home on the Range and Goodbye Old Paint...
Remembered by recordings such as "Lonesome Train," and Columbia Workshop broadcasts, the tall, lanky, blue-eyed singer has played his banjo and sung his songs for millions of people from coast to coast, with such other ballad "greats" as Doody Guthrie and Alan Lomax...
Besides discs of Shakespeare and other masters, read by such experts as Basil Rathbone, the record section also contains the complete albums of American Folk Songs made by the Library of Congress in 1942 and edited by Alan Lomax. With Professor Smith's permission, interested students may even hear recordings of James Joyce himself, reading from "Finnegan's Wake...
...even to make a living. I personally am very grateful." Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 28-year-old historian (The Age of Jackson), won a Guggenheim Fellowship to write a "political-intellectual history" of the New Deal. Other Guggenheimers: Novelist Carson McCullers (The Member of the Wedding); Folksong-bagger Alan Lomax; Painter Eugene Berman...