Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whistler signed his paintings with a butterfly, usually about two inches across. Swiss-born Nat Karson uses an alp. At 29, Painter Karson is black-haired, intense, an art director of Manhattan's famed Radio City Music Hall. Last week a Karson mural was unveiled in the lobby of Manhattan's Rialto, the Music Hall of its day (1916), but for the last four years a Manhattan movie house specializing in horror pictures. (Harvardman Arthur L. Mayer, the Rialto's owner, calls himself "The Merchant of Menace...
...past five years he has done sets for 35 Broadway productions. Near tops in Broadway stage painting last season was Nat Karson's rapid-fire blend of Negro jazz and Japanese formalism in the sets of the Hot Mikado. His latest, Let's Go, opened last week at the International Casino, on the same night his Rialto murals were unveiled. But these are only side jobs...
...midnight, the scenery is hung and lighting effects tried, followed by a dress rehearsal, with the full Rockette chorus, until the doors open at 10:30 Thursday morning. "How often I want to call Mr. Roosevelt," sighs Nat Karson, "and get him to declare the rest of the week Wednesday to give me more time...
Christmas week is Big Week for U. S. college basketball players. While most undergraduates are at home picking up old ties and new socks, most basketballers are off on junkets. In & around New York City last week were assembled an unprecedented collection of visiting basketball teams-Southern California, Texas, Tulane, Michigan, Oklahoma A. & M., Oklahoma, Missouri, Colorado, Oregon, Santa Clara, McGill-matched against the East's best quintets...
...anything ever seen in the Garden, the high-flying Blackbirds preserved a winning streak rare in basketball annals. Because they play so many games a season, U. S. basketball teams seldom finish a season undefeated. Long Island University, however, won all its 24 games last year, had by last week won 42 games in a row (eight of them this season...