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...pound class--Fuller (H) defeated Schaeffer (M.I.T...
Their center is honest, confused Civil War Veteran John Cantrell who presumably represents the American character at its best. Flanking him are his good Socialist friend Marius Schaeffer and his cousin Harvey, a banker and industrialist. Other characters represent law and politics, the white-collar class, the racial minorities, the workers, the easy-money and criminal fringe...
...some claim to celebrity. Then the Hub, down in Boston, was his stamping ground, and he played in all the local tournaments. For one reason or another he never did go into the nationals, yet he has squared off with the best of them in exhibition matches. Hoppe, Schaeffer, and Adijohn--he recalls them all, when "they were pretty good, but still had a lot to learn...
From then on Jelly rose steadily to fame in his chosen profession, performing at places like Aunt Lucy's, Gypsy Schaeffer's and the Frenchman's. Waxing prosperous, he adorned his massive smile with a set of gold teeth, studded one of them with a diamond. In such lurid surroundings, Jelly and other locally celebrated colored musicians like King Oliver and Louis Armstrong were unconsciously shaping a folk music whose syncopated four-four time would later make the whole world dance and sing differently. In rediscovering and re-recording Jelly's simple and persuasive music, Charles...
...Norman Rockwell (45), whose first Saturday Evening Post cover appeared in May 1916, and who has grown rich on the subsequent 185. A perpetually delighted, boyish man much like his own schoolboy characters, Norman Rockwell paints with unvarying lovability, blatant technical flair and particularly lusty highlights. He and Mead Schaeffer, his good friend and fellow romancer, turned up at last week's ball in costumes they were then engaged in painting...