Word: mama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first machine in a bedroom. The first blocks came out a mess, but he finally made some with an error of only eight-millionths of an inch. He cut the error down, began to sell some sets, until depression killed his market. In 1932, his mama let him build a shop in her backyard. Soon he began to peddle his wares again, doubled his sales every year. This year he expects to sell 2,000 sets, all finished by one machine...
Harry Leibovitz went to Philadelphia from Russia in 1904, studied sculpture while working for Baldwin Locomotive Works. But when he married "Mama" Leibovitz, he gave up art, started a shoeshop in a residential section which gradually became a crowded Negro slum. By the time the twins, next to last of the ten Leibovitz children, began drawing and coloring, the family lived in bitter poverty. Morris Kellerman, president of American Lending Libraries (drugstore chain), discovered them, enabled the family to find a decent home. Samuel Fleisher, public-spirited Philadelphian, crusader for "Cultural Olympics" (TIME, Dec. 7, 1936), got the twins...
...thrilled." They had typical duplicate canvases of the same subject, a Negro named George. The difference between them was mainly that Freda painted only the head, called it Negro Head, while Ida painted a half-figure, called it George. Also in the show were a good watercolor portrait of Mama Leibovitz by Freda, oil portraits of Freda & Ida by each other, many a picture done in Mexico last summer-where both girls managed to travel on a one-man scholarship...
...very little if any Indian blood, and among white Mexicans family means two things, mother and food. Manuel's late mother, Eufrosina, was a prodigious little woman. She was matriarch of the whole town of Teziutlan, and peasants for miles around took their troubles and sicknesses to Mama Camacho. She promoted the district's excellent school...
...Grover's account of the club's decline and fall. . . . Eight-neat fans may add to their list Teddy Powell's DECCA recording of Teddy's Boogie-Woogie. It's fast jump, with a gang of good choruses. . . . Will Bradley has finally turned out his firs fizzle, Scrub Me Mama, an attempt to recapture the success of Beat Me Daddy. However, he makes up for it with Scramble Two, a clean job on a fine arrangement, featuring a wacky vocal break by Ray McKinley and family (COLUMBIA). . . . DECCA has issued an album of Count Basie piano, accompanied by Freddie Green...