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At bucolic Jacob's Pillow at Lee, Mass., summer dance fans and Manhattan critics crowded into the big wooden barn-studio to see the first performance of aging (57) Ted Shawn's The Dreams of Jacob, with music by Darius Milhaud. Critics found his new five-movement work...
"There is a great deal of criticism in the cloakrooms . . . There is a feeling that the Democratic forces are cracking the whip . . . There are some of us who happen to be prima donnas enough to object . . . We are not going to be treated as grade-school children by a strong...
More than a few of the 3,000 members of the National Association of Manufacturers, gathered for their annual convention in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week, felt like small boys worrying about a trip to the woodshed. None knew how vindictive or friendly toward business the Truman...
¶ A sculptor comes to Springfield to take plaster impressions of Lincoln's hands. He suggests that something be held while the cast is being made. Lincoln vanishes into a woodshed, is heard sawing away, reappears with a carefully trimmed piece of broomstick. The sculptor protests that any old...
A by-product of progressive education and the Wagner Act, student strikes in the U.S. were on the rise last week. Some recent strikes and issues: in Rogersville, Tenn., for better teachers; in Lock Haven, Pa., against corporal punishment; in Chicago, because the boys wanted a football team and the...