Word: greenwich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro ballroom, and after the family moved to Seattle, she became a regular with local bands. She went on tour with Bumps Blackwell's band, then with Johnny Otis, finally with Lionel Hampton, who took her to Manhattan. For a while she had a "steady gig" at a Greenwich Village spot, but she never attracted real attention until she went to Sweden in 1956 with an "allstar" jazz group headed by Trumpeter Rolf Ericsen. The Swedes loved her and mobbed her concerts. When she got back to the U.S., choice dates were still hard to come by, but West...
...every TV evening: the advertising grab-bag of under-arm deodorants, living bras, toilet tissue, toe-nail paint, perfume, mouthwash, and the Potato Sack look. Sex was the province of the Ladies Home Journal. Dr. Spock replaced the Bible. Bohemia in pink panties was more organized nymphomania than Art. Greenwich Village was overrun with mop-headed, turtle-necked, tweed-wrapped, smudge-faced, and beer-reeking femmes fatale, with Wallace Stevens under one arm and Well of Loneliness under the other...
Died. Guy Pène du Bois, 74, Brooklyn-born Greenwich Village painter, art critic, autobiographer (Artists Say the Silliest Things), father of Painter Yvonne Pène du Bois and Writer-Illustrator William Pène du Bois, uncle of Broadway set and costume Designer Raoul Pène du Bois; of cancer; in Boston. With George Luks, John Sloan, William Glackens, Du Bois was an honor student in Robert Henri's pre-World War I Ashcan School of American art, i.e., realists. With his richly colored, firmly fleshed figures (Bal des Quatre Arts, Carnival Interlude), Du Bois...
...Frederic C. Wood, a consulting engineer in Greenwich, Conn., will talk on "A Citizen Analyzes Building Costs for Schools...
...What-Me Worry?" Most fascinating aspect of Mad's success is that its spoofs appeal mainly to teenagers. They bombard Mad's tiny editorial offices just below Manhattan's Greenwich Village with some 400 fan letters a day, wear T shirts emblazoned with the .face of Mad's grinning imp Alfred E. ("What-me worry?") Neuman, and treasure old issues like collector's items. Maddiction also has become a cult in some adult circles. Comics Ernie Kevacs, Bob and Ray, Henry Morgan and Orson Bean contribute frequently and willingly for next to nothing...