Word: slickness
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...pretty corny. But it was hot and loud and Hollywood cafe society couldn't get enough of it. Last week, the Firehouse Five Plus Two was packing Hollywood's slick Mocambo one night a week with four-alarm crowds. To the Firehousers' chief, Ward Kimball, the explanation was simple: "After bebop, jazz sounds solid and melodic. Maybe that's why people are ready...
...mate & Exact. Such huge retrospectives are trials by fire for an artist. If he has been repetitious, the exhibition bores the viewer: if he has followed fashion, it dates the artist. If he is too slick, it sickens; if too sour, it disgusts. But Hopper, 67, is none of these things. "My aim in painting," he once wrote, "has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature...
...With the slick new models, the weakness of the company was not in the cars but in the men to sell them. K-F's dealer organization, never first-rate, was in poor shape. Its 4,600 agencies had melted to 3,200, and hardly half of the survivors seemed to know how to sell. Edgar Kaiser had to find a way to pep up his dealers to match his cars...
Died. Arthur ("Art") Fletcher, 65, who saw action in 14 World Series, four times as a peppery, slick-fielding Giant shortstop in the McGraw era, ten times as a wily, hawk-eyed Yankee coach; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Fletcher joined the Yankees after four seasons (1923-26) as manager of the lackluster Phillies, turned down the chance to manage many another big-league team-including the Yankees-and stayed on until 1945 as one of baseball's highest-paid coaches...
Juan Gris was an artist who earned respect, if not popularity. His severely cubist paintings, on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week, were mostly classics of their kind. Gris's favorite props-wine bottles, clay pipes, books, newspapers and guitars-were crowded into compositions as slick and tight as nylon stockings. They were neither completely representational nor completely abstract, for Gris believed the two elements were like the warp and woof in weaving, inseparable...