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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Star Football Game (Wed. 8:30 p.m., NBC-Blue) between the professional N. Y. Giants and college star players at Manhattan's Polo Grounds...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. Mary Felecia ran out on a busy intersection, embraced Patrolman John Rom, cried, "I love you," embarrassed Patrolman Rom, tied up traffic. Said she at the police station: "When I see a man in uniform I just get the yen to hug and kiss...
...local Plumbers' Union, WPA carpenters, the High School manual training classes, a local fur dealer and the Junior League all labored together to give Art a fitting home. In Salem, Ore., a retired professor contributed the first $100 and 2,000 school children chipped in. In Greensboro, N. C., the Community Centre was established in a busted bank and is now regarded by adjacent businessmen as a far greater asset in the location than the bank ever was. Laid out by experts from Washington, such a Federal art gallery as that in Laramie, Wyo. has all the elegance...
Last week in Wilmington. N. C. (pop. 32,270), a downtown building recently occupied by an undertaker's parlor was undergoing a cheerful change. Carpenters and painters were remodeling it into studios, workshops and an art gallery. In Salt Lake City, Utah (pop. 140,267), the old Elks Club building near Brigham Young's Theatre had by last week undergone a similar transformation. In Spokane, Wash. (pop. 115,514), a downtown store building, rebuilt into galleries, studios and work rooms, was preparing for its first art show. For these cities the appearance of Art in the business district...
...Assistant and Regional Director for the South. Parker, like Cahill, was devoted to the idea of building up community art centres. They began in the South, where Holger Cahill had observed the greatest need. The First Federal-sponsored community centre was started by Director Parker in Raleigh, N. C., in January 1936. Since then Assistant Parker, operating from his office in the Project's old building on Washington's G Street, has planned and planted centres from Harlem to Key West and in ten western States. In all cases the project starts by getting the community itself worked...