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Coming Attraction. In Newark, Jacob Goldis, 69, bought a coffin, tombstone and plot, called a rabbi, invited 40 friends to a dress rehearsal of his funeral...
Pointless. In Newark, 125,000 red ration points were stolen the night before all red points were declared invalid...
Here & there a city got to work. Example: Newark planned 300 temporary houses (needed: 7,000). Here & there a voice spoke out in alarm: Sociologist Louis Wirth, chairman of an emergency Chicago housing committee, prepared a careful report urging the city to convert factories, office buildings and war plants into makeshift shelter. But mostly the problem was just talked about...
...first (1913) look at the French moderns, says Davis, "gave me the same excitement I got from the numerical precision of the Negro piano players in the Newark saloons. I resolved that I would quite definitely have to become a 'modern' artist. It took an awful long time. I soon learned to think of color more or less objectively so that I could paint a green tree red without batting an eye. Purple or green faces didn't bother me at all, and I even learned to sew buttons and glue excelsior on the canvas without feeling...
Tomato Surprise. In Newark, an alarmed inmate of the Ivy Hills Alms House summoned four fire engines, a res cue squad, and two hook-&-ladder trucks to a sunny field blazing with ripe, red tomatoes...