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With TV spots before his eyes and sponsors' pleas ringing in his ears, Scarfe finally turned off the tube and sought the relative quiet of our editorial offices. There he converted a conference room into a bizarre workshop. The staff watched with growing curiosity as he collected an improbable mess of dismembered store-window mannequins, overturned cornflakes boxes, scattered cigarettes and disarrayed lingerie, and began to stuff it all into a gutted TV set. With hammer and saw, glue and plaster, Scarfe concocted a many-armed "assemblage." For a final fillip, he managed to attach a serving of spaghetti...
...miscellaneous jobs, including short-order cook and sheet-metal worker, he served a four-year hitch in the Navy and used the G.I. bill to join the Actors Laboratory Theater in Hollywood. In 1954, back in Manhattan as stage manager for CBS-TV, Papp organized an unsalaried Shakespeare workshop in the basement Sunday-school room of a church on the Lower East Side...
...instead of running the Fogg as a sedate mausoleum of art, Coolidge committed the museum to expanded educational services, so that it now serves as both a display center for Fine Arts classes and a workshop for grad students studying curatorship. Coolidge came to Harvard as an assistant professor of Fine Arts in 1947, the year before he became director, and will go back to full-time teaching after stepping down from the directorship. He taught courses most of the years in between and tried to combine the museum staff and Fine Arts Faculty into a single community of scholars...
Observed by the cameras in a high school TV workshop, the little girl leafed through picture books, ran, jumped, laughed and turned somersaults. "Boy!" exclaimed Mrs. Garrett. "She's just what the doctor ordered...
...Francisco's Jazz Workshop in 1960. Wes has learned to improvise, to say the least. But only now, at 37, has he finally budged from In dianapolis in order to join his brothers Monk and Buddy in a group called the Mastersounds. His playing, though bristling with authority, is unorthodox: he plucks the strings with his thumb in stead of his fingers or a plectrum, giving a rounded, intense tone, and he phrases in short, jabbing bursts instead of the looping legatos of most post-Christian guitarists. Enter Jazz Critic Ralph Gleason...