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...JEANETTE WEBB...
...music styles began to meld. A languorous hybrid known as country-and-western was born, in which the still simple music of the Southeast was blended with the more sophisticated instrumentation (steel guitar, drums, even horns) of the Far West. This wedding of styles produced, among others, Merle Travis, Webb Pierce and the late Hank Williams. The rise of rock 'n' roll (notably Elvis Presley, who began his career singing country-and-western in Memphis) eclipsed country in the late 1950s. But by the late 1960s rock, the child of rock 'n' roll, was embracing country...
...manufacturer of this mechanical wizard, Detroit's Jervis B. Webb Co., has had long experience making such automatons. One device, designed for carting material around trade shows and conventions, actually says "Pardon me" (in a recorded male voice). Webb's most sophisticated installation is at Detroit's 650-bed Harper-Webber Hospital. There, 70 automated, self-propelled carts recently began doing everything from delivering meals and surgical equipment to carrying off dirty linens and wastes. To prevent the spread of germs from one area of the hospital to another, the carts are programmed to return directly...
...load a poor ash tray too full, but the kind of contained glow that radiates in this photograph, and the similar "charging" of the matter of fact that happens in a lot of Alex Webb's photographs is a good model for what photography can do best. There is an outsider's distance, even arrogance, here that picks its images intelligently and admits the choosing straight-forwardly, just by seeming so plain...
Founded in 1895 by Social Reformers Beatrice and Sidney Webb, the L.S.E. has been noted for a unique blend of scholarship and social activism that has attracted an international array of agile minds, both to teach and be taught...