Word: projects
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week another jam project was under way near New York City, in Toto's Green Haven Inn, founded in Mamaroneck by the late famed circus clown. Mixed aplenty, Sunday-afternoon sessions were open to any expert jazzman. Four Sundays of it had built a typical jazz following, equal parts suburban jitterbugs and reverential male grownups. In every audience there was at least one know-it-all who bothered the players with technical questions, and one high-school editor who inquired: "Do you think real jazz is on the decline?", whereupon everyone grabbed for his drink...
...cost of the project will be between $1,000 and $2,000, which the Council hopes to raise from alumni. The Order Department of the Library will assist in the purchasing...
Last fortnight Manhattan's American Artists Group, composed of dozens of top-notchers, put its cards on sale. Prices: 5? to 25?. Artists Harry Wickey, Rockwell Kent and Adolf Dehn began the Christmas card project in 1935. None of the artists made pictures expressly for cards; works were chosen for their reproducibility. But three years ago, as a sop to gum-chewers, the Group added a side line: Christmas cards of conventional kind, designed by professional illustrators. There are now 1,500 cards on the Group list, to which 200 a year are added. The 168 participating artists...
Final plans for the assembling of a group of authoritative books on the present war have been drawn up by the Student Council, it was announced last night by Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41, who said that all that remains now is to raise funds for the project...
Citing the extensive radio work now being done at the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, Friedrich requested that the accompanying questionnaire be filled out and returned to the Radio Broadcasting Research Project of which he is chairman...