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Wrote Critic Eric Newton: "These American pictures catch the eye in a flash, but they are empty." Said the Sunday Observer: "This term 'symbolic realism' is found to embrace the phosphorescent skeleton paintings of Pavel Tchelitchew; a horrific problem picture by Alton Pickens, of the crowning of a dyed ape . . . and Henry Koerner's surrealist picture [TIME, March 27] of a barber playing the violin to his shrouded customers and a monkey-an entertainment which no doubt explains the increased cost of hairdressing in American establishments. Most of these paintings have been worked over again and again...
...DICTIONARY OF THE UNDERWORLD (804 pp.)-Eric Partridge-Macmillan...
HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE (I 88 pp.] -Eric Partridge-Macmillan...
Thus, in 1934, spoke a gunman sentenced to ten years in San Quentin for a shooting. He was talking a venerable underworld cant rooted 400 years deep in Anglo-American history. Britain's Eric Partridge, a lexicographer who has strayed off the fairways of the English language to rummage in the rough (A Dictionary of Slang, Shakespeare's Bawdy), shows in his massive new Dictionary of the Underworld that even in 18th Century London a beak was a magistrate, a college was a prison, and to frisk was to search. But U.S. criminals, no mere copycats, have made...
Jukebox Promoter Eric de Stoutz, executive vice president of SARI, Geneva representative of Wurlitzer, said last week: "I didn't expect them to be a success at all. I was afraid of the colors-so American looking! I was astonished to find that many Swiss thought them beautiful. At first they regarded the jukebox with curiosity . . . [then] they realized that the tone was better than anything they had heard. Believe it or not, some people now bring their own records to cafes, ask the proprietor to put them in the jukebox, and they pay to have their own records...