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...husband's painting career began, she confided, at Fort Myer, Va. (when he was on duty at the nearby Pentagon after the war). He just called for "a rag, thumb tacks and a board." The rag turned out to be a dish cloth on which he painted an oil portrait of Mamie. "I just don't know the word for it," she said...
Runnin' Wild (Teddy Wilson and the All Stars; MGM, 8 sides). Old favorites such as Bugle Call Rag, Stompin' at the Savoy, I Surrender Dear, well played by the pixie-fingered professor (of jazz piano at Juilliard School of Music) and such cohorts as Trumpeter Buck Clayton, Vibraphonist Red Norvo. Not too well recorded...
...unidentified student or group of students blared selections, including Ball Hi and Tiger Rag, over a loud speaker in a music orgy that resounded throughout the House...
...Rag Doll. Last week in the old Ellenton, narcissuses and camellias still bloomed around the angry scars where once there were homes. A hound dog snoozed in the sun on worn brick steps that led to a void. A rag doll lay in the dust. On the blackboard of the village school a childish hand had written in big round letters: "Goodbye, dear school. Goodbye." Galphin Dunbar, 73, a descendant of the family originally granted the land around Ellenton by King George II two centuries ago, sat brooding on a baggage dolly in the railroad shed. "I'm gonna...
...shown the same insight and judgment in political ventures. As boss of the America First Committee in the early days of World War II, Wood gathered together some sincere men who thought they could keep the U.S. out of the war. But the committee also attracted a rag, tag & bobtail of anti-Semites, pro-Nazis and others whom Wood now sadly recalls as "crackpots." Since those days, Wood has tempered his economic nationalism and is no longer sure that the Americas can let the rest of the world go hang. He is still a bear on Europe. He thinks Europe...