Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think art should be shocking, necessarily," says Painter Paul Cadmus, "but it should be disturbing." Cadmus, who combines a steady hand with a jaundiced eye, had never failed to disturb people and earn a living by it, but his first exhibition of paintings in twelve years, which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week, made his earlier works seem almost sissified...
...Anthony Brady Farrell Productions) is suitably Texan in size and general good nature. But it is no less Texan in sprawl; it ranges over a lot. of flat country, strikes snags more often than oil, and displays no great sense of direction. Half satiric and half folksy, it is never quite sure whether it is stalking wild life or big shots, finally bags neither...
Many medical men, including a few of Dr. Fishbein's sometime detractors, feel that he has been shabbily treated by the A.M.A. after 37 years of faithful, loud-voiced service. But Fishbein, showing no malice, says: "I never get mad at anybody. I stopped having feelings long ago." But those who have dared Dr. Fishbein's displeasure may eventually get their comeuppance: he is already at work on his memoirs...
Boomtown. Scurry's county seat, the once sleepy little cotton and cattle town of Snyder, had never seen anything like it, either. In the crowded lobby of its dingy Manhattan Hotel, the air hummed with talk of royalties, acreage, porosity. Leases changed hands so fast that new maps of the county had to be issued twice a month (at $15 each). In nine months, Snyder's population had shot up from 3,000 to 15,000. To handle the overflow of schoolchildren, the town bought an empty schoolhouse 175 miles away and hauled it to Snyder...
...shined shoes, worked as stableboy and waiter, danced for nickels & dimes in beer joints before he rose to millionaire stardom (as high as $8,000 a week) in vaudeville, movies (The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel with Moppet Shirley Temple) and musicomedies (The Hot Mikado). A natural dancer who never took a lesson, he gave lessons to Eleanor Powell and Ruby Keeler, originated the widely imitated stair dance, danced down Broadway to celebrate his 61st birthday. Twice married, Bojangles credited his stamina and success to vanilla ice cream and teetotaling, lived sumptuously in Harlem, gambled and generously gave away...