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wutbju · 1 year

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Mary Dolores (Dee) Booth-Evans is now happy abiding in the presence of Jesus since August 26, no longer enduring Alzheimer’s disease. She was buried at Florida National Cemetery.

Dee was born on Christmas day, December 25, 1938, in an old farmhouse in Waterford, Michigan. She lived there until she was married. After graduating from Waterford Township High School in 1957, she attended Bob Jones University earning a degree in Elementary Education in 1962. She taught second and third grade at Pontiac Lake School for several years. She started piano lessons at a very early age and she was the pianist at Calvary Baptist Church in Waterford, Michigan for many years. She could play both the organ and the piano.

The secretary at her school introduced her to Dick Evans and 2 years later, June 18, 1966, they were married. Dee taught school until they started having children and she became a stay-at-home mom while Dick went to college. He graduated in 1973. They were married for 55 years and had three children: Vickie Sceifers in Cincinnati, OH; Rick in San Diego, CA and David in St Petersburg, FL. Dee retired in 1990 after their children graduated.

In 2005 they moved to The Villages, Florida where they attended Tri-County Baptist Church and Dee became the pianist for a several years. Dick and Dee lived many places; Waterford, Ml; Millersville, MD; Talahassee, FL; Conover, NC; Louisville, KY and finally, The Villages. Dee contracted Alzheimer’s disease about 5 years ago. In January, 2020, she was placed in a memory care facility until she relocated to her heavenly home August, 2021. She is now feeling great, physically and spiritually, while in the presence of Jesus.

#Bob Jones University #Archive #Obituary #BJU Hall of Fame #BJU Alumni Association #2022 #Mary Dolores Booth Evans #Class of 1960

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flyinghellfish · 3 years

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#the simpsons #cuba #fidel castro #bart vs australia #s06e16 #evan conover

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mosaicrecords · 5 years

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Willis Conover Interviews Gil Evans

The University of North Texas has posted this February 1968 impromptu chat when Gil Evans dropped by Willis Conover’s radio show. Gil talks about the session with Miles that produced Falling Water and myriad of upcoming pending projects. A fascinating little slice of the time.

-Michael Cuscuna

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#Gil Evans #Miles Davis #arrangers #Willis Conover #Harold Arlen #classic jazz #Friedrich Gulda #Michael Cuscuna

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the-fourty-7th-gamer · 3 years

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Nickelodeon All Star Brawl

... Is a game I am definitely excited for.

And I'm actually going to do a very big post to talk about things I am hoping to see in seeing in the game.

Characters I want to see in the game

Starting off, I want to say that so far the roster is looking good especially on the Nick Toon side of things, but one thing I'm going to talk about is that the game is called Nickelodeon (not Nick Toon) All-Star Brawl, meaning that we're going to see representation from throughout the Nickelodeon line up of properties.

Characters I would like to see include

Ed from Good Burger

A live-action sit com charecter

Miko and Hector

The Game Shakers team (this will make sense later)

Rocko

Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, And Dawn

Marc Summers

A music artist/group

Tigress

Skipper + The penguins of Madagascar

Otto

Timmy Turner

jimmy neutron

Henry Hart/Kid Danger and Captain Man

Harvey beaks

Nacho Libre

Rango

Otis

Tak

Dudley and Kitty

Making Fiends leads

Harriet the spy (maybe, it was the first Nickelodeon movie, so I feel obligated to put it on here)

George Lopez (also obligated because I can't remember any other original shows on Nick at night that could fit on this list.)

A Nick Jr character, probably Dora or Diego due to the movie coming out (also obligated because I feel like I should put in a Nick Jr character here)

The Thundermans or The X Family

The Supah Ninjas or Three Delivery

Kappa Mikey

Hugh neutron

Dib

Sway Sway & Beduce or Sanjay & Craig

Brendan and Evan

Adam Conover

CatDog

Squidward

Garfield

The musical versions of SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy

Stages

Now, well I do know that characters are definitely a big part of a game, where they're fighting is also a big part as well

The hotel from "Hotel For Dogs"

The Irkin ship

The town from Rango

The city from Albert the Christmas tree

The Stage from the SpongeBob musical

Fairy world

The location from Rocket Power

A stage from a music concert

A location from at least one Nickelodeon licensed game

Either Retroville or the location where the climax set on Jimmy neutron the movie

The Wayne

Wayside School

A location from the Spiderwick Chronicles (I don't really know that much about the books but I do remember that the locations from the movie will be cool)

Either Double Dare, Nickelodeon arcade, Legends Of The Hidden Temple, The Crystal Maze, or Guts as a stage.

Nickelodeon animation studios

A Nickelodeon hotel or resort

Other stuff

In this game, I feel like we should have other stuff aside from the main fighting game, like mini-games and such

Things that should be included in the game, an obstacle course mode, a tournament mode, an arcade mode, a museum mode, clips from the cartoon, and lastly...

A story mode

A story mode is what I hope most for this game, something akin to the Timmy Jimmy power hour or subspace emissary. With cutscenes, a good story, and an epic villain.

Here's what I think a story should be

Throughout the Nickelodeon version of Earth, great chaos is happening, The world is slowly breaking apart due to an unknown force. It turns out this is being caused by the collector, a being who is obsessed with Nickelodeon so much in fact that he wants to take it over. Now it's up to the Nickelodeon characters to save their world before it can be put on The collector's shelf.

Now the collector is the villain I made up for this, but don't worry there will still be villains from throughout the shows but some of them will be willing to put their villainous actions decide to not be put on a shelf. I wasn't kidding when I said that the big plan is to be put on a collector's shelf.

One major part of the story is everything takes place in the same world for this game. That means that there are aliens fairies ninjas talking animals, glitched video games, and all that jazz.

A couple of examples of the world crossing over since the game has one big connected world are...

Professor membrane finally having to come to terms that the supernatural exists

Da Rules being broken causing fairy world to be revealed

The Glitch Techs in the Game Shakers forming a partnership due to the common ground of games (I said it would make sense later)

Callbacks to previous crossover events

Time travel and alternate universe shenanigans causing multiple versions of characters to coexist

How does Nickeloden exist as a Cartoon channel in Universe

In acknowledgment of how Eliza Thornberry's powers work, due to the question of whether or not you can talk to characters like SpongeBob, Garfield, the Tuff Agency or CatDog

And a solid timeline of events that happen within the show.

I hope this is pretty accurate but I don't mind some alterations to my ideas that I will happen for the final game and its possible DLC.

And that is all I have to say

Good day

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oberlincollegelibraries · 3 years

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Weekend Edition: Books By and About Women

If you’re participating in OCL’s Reading Challenge Bingo, then you know one of the prompts is to read a book by or about a woman. But because March is Women’s History Month, we’ve decided to double-down and highlight books that are both by and about women!

God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop by Kathy Iandoli "For far too long, women in hip-hop have been relegated to the shadows, viewed as the designated "First Lady" thrown a contract, a pawn in some beef, or even worse. But as Kathy Iandoli makes clear, the reality is very different. Today, hip-hop is dominated by successful women such as Cardi B and Nicki Minaj, yet there are scores of female artists whose influence continues to resonate. God Save the Queens pays tribute to the women of hip-hop--from the early work of Roxanne Shante, to hitmakers like Queen Latifah and Missy Elliot, to the superstars of today. Exploring issues of gender, money, sexuality, violence, body image, feuds, objectification and more, God Save the Queens is an important and monumental work of music journalism that at last gives these influential female artists the respect they have long deserved."--Amazon Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans "The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. But the little-known fact is that female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation--they've just been erased from the story. Until now. Women are not ancillary to the history of technology; they turn up at the very beginning of every important wave. But they've often been hidden in plain sight, their inventions and contributions touching our lives in ways we don't even realize. VICE reporter and YACHT lead singer Claire L. Evans finally gives these unsung female heroes their due with her insightful social history of the Broad Band, the women who made the internet what it is today. Learn from Ada Lovelace, the tortured, imaginative daughter of Lord Byron, who wove numbers into the first program for a mechanical computer in 1842. Seek inspiration from Grace Hopper, the tenacious mathematician who democratized computing by leading the charge for machine-independent programming languages after World War II. Meet Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler, the one-woman Google who kept the earliest version of the Internet online, and Stacy Horn, who ran one of the first-ever social networks on a shoestring out of her New York City apartment in the 1980s. Evans shows us how these women built and colored the technologies we can't imagine life without. Join the ranks of the pioneers who defied social convention and the longest odds to become database poets, information-wranglers, hypertext dreamers, and glass ceiling-shattering dot com-era entrepreneurs. This inspiring call to action is a revelation: women have embraced technology from the start. It shines a light on the bright minds whom history forgot, and shows us how they will continue to shape our world in ways we can no longer ignore. Welcome to the Broad Band. You're next"-- Provided by publisher

Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive by Kristen J. Sollée; illustrations by Coz Conover "Witch, Slut, Feminist: these contested identities are informing millennial women as they counter a torturous history of misogyny with empowerment. This innovative primer highlights sexual liberation as it traces the lineage of 'witch feminism.' Juxtaposing scholarly research on the demonization of women and female sexuality that has continued since the witch hunts of the early modern era with pop occulture analyses and interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and practitioners of witchcraft, this book greatly enriches our current conversations about reproductive rights, sexual pleasure, queer identity, pornography, sex work, and more."--Back cover

Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower by Roseann Lake Forty years ago, China enacted the one-child policy, only recently relaxed. Among many other unintended consequences, it resulted in both an enormous gender imbalance--with a predicted twenty million more men than women of marriage age by 2020--and China's first generations of only-daughters. Given the resources normally reserved for boys, these girls were pushed to study, excel in college, and succeed in careers, as if they were sons. Now living in an economic powerhouse, enough of these women have decided to postpone marriage--or not marry at all--to spawn a label: "leftovers." Unprecedentedly well-educated and goal-oriented, they struggle to find partners in a society where gender roles have not evolved as vigorously as society itself, and where new professional opportunities have made women less willing to compromise their careers or concede to marriage for the sake of being wed. Further complicating their search for a mate, the vast majority of China's single men reside in and are tied to the rural areas where they were raised. This makes them geographically, economically, and educationally incompatible with city-dwelling "leftovers," who also face difficulty in partnering with urban men, given the urban men's general preference for more dutiful, domesticated wives. Part critique of China's paternalistic ideals, part playful portrait of the romantic travails of China's trailblazing women and their well-meaning parents who are anxious to see their daughters snuggled into traditional wedlock, Roseann Lake's Leftover in China focuses on the lives of four individual women against a backdrop of colorful anecdotes, hundreds of interviews, and rigorous historical and demographic research to show how these "leftovers" are the linchpin to China's future.

#oberlin college libraries #ocl reading challenge #ocl bingo #book bingo #reading challenge #women's history month #books by women #women authors #female authors #OCLReads

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perfectlymarilynmonroe · 5 years

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“[David] Conover took more pictures of his discovery over the subsequent weeks, at the same time recommending her to fellow photographers. So began a love affair with the camera which would define the rest of her life. From the start self-critical to the point of nervousness, she would light up, ‘courting the lens’ as more than one observer put it, when the camera was about to click.”

- Marilyn: The Ultimate Book by Mike Evans

#marilyn monroe #vintage #1940s #1945 #David Conover #book excerpt

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rndyounghowze · 5 years

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Once Upon a Time Players go Into the Woods at Galloway Township Middle School in Galloway, NJ

By Ricky Young-Howze

When you review a show like "Into the Woods" three times in as many months you have a feeling that your game is going to get a little stale. Well Once Upon a Time Players' production of this musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine was the Junior Version specifically tweaked for kids. Directed by Brian Conover this condensed twisted take on fairy tales still was an audience delight!

If you think you know your fairy tales just because you own 99% of the Disney Vault think again. This play takes several of your fairy tale creatures "Into the Woods" and launches them on a new journey of self discovery.

There is such an efficiency in the direction by Brian Conover that I really wish he taught a directing class. He and Patti Yamaguchi got a show that can just drag on and on to fly by at whiplash speed. Also kudos to Stephanie Paton for additional staging.

I didn't know what to say about Cinderella (played by Mackenzie Hackney) because she's really talented but where do you start? Let's start and end with her singing that is on display in "On the Steps of the Palace". It was the best solo of the night and it really awed me that she stood there and delivered it straight at us bowling us all over with that voice. What a performance!

Can we talk about how Baker (played by Evan Theoharis) kept going on like a pro even after getting beamed in the head by a New Jersey flag that accidentally fell on the stage. He just stepped over it and kept going without missing a beat. That's how you do it!

I'm so proud of Adam Gertsel who played Jack. I don't know why but I found myself holding my breath watching him sing "Giants in the Sky". The way he attacked the song was like watching someone walk a tightrope. He did such a great job!

Baker's Wife (played by Alaina Gertsel) was a quick talker and had a good presence. I am quite vocal about how I don't like the Baker's Wife in this play. But Gertsel's energy when she's singing really struck me as a breath of fresh air!

I have seen a lot of Little Red Riding Hoods onstage and Grace Reitzel's presence onstage standing so strong and tall and proud and using her natural energy to wow us while she was singing definitely got me over my Red Riding Hood fatigue. Great job!

The Witch (played by Jenna Mullin pre transformation and Cayla Kirby post transformation) did such a great job! Mullin was spitting rhymes like it was her job and then had a screeching witch voice that was like nails on a chalkboard (but in a good way). And it's kinda hard to be a character whose only description is "the pretty one" but Kirby rose to the occasion!

My Supporting Shoutouts gave me a lot of great things to crow about!

The Mysterious Man (played by Mason Platt) is a hard part to play in the Junior versions because he just pops in and out and doesn't have the added job of being the Narrator like in the full version. Platt's blase attitude made his short amount of time onstage memorable. Great job!

Our Princes (played by Connor Camp and Andrew Krumaker) really rocked out their performance of Agony! That song is not easy to do and I really think they deserved the applause and the cheers that they got.

I always like to shout out my actors playing Milky White because they are some of the hardest working cows in show biz. Anna Sophia Hernandez was no slouch and I applaud the decision to get her knee pads. Great job dying onstage! (You have to see the show to know why this is a compliment)

And can we just give a medal to our Narrators (Chloe Arnold, Khristina Cabrera, Fay DeBlasio, Vivian Jiang, and Phoebe Kershenblatt) for sharing their duties and keeping the action going!

Let's have a round of applause for costumes by Mrs. Stephanie Paton and Patti Yamaguchi and big hand to lights by Scott VanDaley and Kayleigh Montgomery. And a special thanks to all the staff, parents, and volunteers that worked on set and props.

What I love about a GTMS Drama club presentation is that the staff and volunteers and families stand with their kids to give them constant support. You walk in and the principal, Paula Junker, is selling concessions. Brian Conover is constantly praising them and I had an army of parents and high school brothers and sisters begging me to come out and review them. I'm glad I did. After seeing this show so many times this production was a night and day difference! You have to go see it for yourself.

You have one more time to watch this show tonight at 7pm. Follow the #gtmswoods hashtag on Instagram and Twitter and let us know what you think! Have you seen the show? Tell us all about it on Facebook. The best way to get the word out is to share the link everwhere.

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gigakstore · 3 years

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An unexpected result from a dark matter experiment may signal new particles.

Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/ By Emily Conover An experiment searching for cosmic dark matter may have finally detected something. But it’s not dark matter. Scientists with the XENON1T experiment reported data June 17 showing an unexpectedly large number of blips within their detector. “We observe an excess … and we don’t know what it is,” said physicist Evan Shockley of the University…

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xinonthisplanet · 4 years

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Does social media lead to political polarization?

One word is becoming significant in the field of public opinion: political polarization. In the context of Western democracies, political polarization describes the process by which "people's attitudes are diverging to ideological extremes" (DiMaggio, Evans & Bryson 1996).

Every ideology and value seem to tend to become polarized. Citizens with different perspectives no longer seem to communicate and understand each other rationally in order to seek objective results. Instead, they have become extremely opposite, communicating to attack and persuade each other. Some of the more neutral thoughts, such as feminism, vegetarianism, have begun to become extreme and divided on today's Internet. Such examples are full of our lives. Earlier, Trump won the U.S. election with an extreme version of populism; at the moment, Sheryl Sandberg angered Trump with an extreme version of environmentalism and became seething online.

(Source: Pew Research Center (2014). Political Polarization in the American Public)

In the United States, a survey of 10,000 adults conducted by Pew Research Center (2014) found that over the past 20 years, the total number of Americans who have expressed a conservative or liberal view has doubled from 10% to 21%. Compared with the past, today's ideological thinking is closer to the party. As a result, the ideological overlap between the two parties has decreased: today, 92% of Republicans are in the middle of the Democrats, and 94% of Democrats are on the left of the Republicans.

(Source: Pew Research Center (2014). Political Polarization in the American Public)

As we can see, in 1994, 23% of Republicans were more liberal than the median Democrats. Furthermore, 17% of Democrats are more conservative than the median Republicans. In 2014, these figures were only 4% and 5%, respectively. As we can see, Republicans and Democrats in the United States have more ideological differences than at any time in the past two decades.

(Image: Brown University)

These situations seem to be related to platforms provided by social media, such as Twitter and Facebook. These sites are often accused of exacerbating political polarization by creating "echo rooms" to prevent people from reaching opinions that differ from their opinions (Bakshy, 2018), which mentioned in the previous blog. Although social media has caused some negative consequences, such as the echo chamber, it may not be the leading cause of political polarization directly.

Social networks are diverse, and different social platforms have different effects on political speeches and opinions. Research shows that some types of social websites, such as blogs or Twitter, indeed show different extent of information homogeneity among politically interested users. It is mainly because the user relationships of such social networking sites are formed based on common topical interests or specific content (Conover et al., 2011).

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(Source: “How Facebook is Changing Your Internet” New York Times Documentaries,2017)

However, another type of social media based on real-world relationships shows the opposite results. According to Bakshy et al. 's study in 2015, Facebook's user relationships mainly reflect many different off-line social environments: schools, homes, social activities, and workplaces, which have been found to facilitate the contact and exchange of social information across fields. Social endorsements may be a significant reason. These social networking sites establish a deep connection between cyberspace and reality. What is more, a study shows that social media help users build external and ecological effectiveness of social endorsements in the off-line life, which fundamentally changes how news is consumed and shared on the Internet (Messing & Westwood,2014).

Therefore, as a platform for political discussions, social media is used to deepen political polarization or the rational exchange of different political opinions, depending on many conditions. However, as users, we have the power to expose oneself to perspectives from the other side.

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Reference:

Bail, C. A., Argyle, L. P., Brown, T. W., Bumpus, J. P., Chen, H., Hunzaker, M. F., ... & Volfovsky, A. (2018). Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201804840.

Bakshy, E., Messing, S., & Adamic, L. A. (2015). Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook. Science, 348(6239), 1130-1132. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6239/1130

M. D. Conover, J. Ratkiewicz, M. Francisco, B. Gonçalves, A. Flammini, F. Menczer (2011). Political polarization on Twitter. Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM11/paper/viewPaper/2847

Messing, S., & Westwood, S. J. (2014). Selective Exposure in the Age of Social Media: Endorsements Trump Partisan Source Affiliation When Selecting News Online. Communication Research, 41(8), 1042–1063. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650212466406

Pew Research Center (2014). Political Polarization in the American Public. https://www.people-press.org/2014/06/12/political-polarization-in-the-american-public/

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marlaluster · 5 years

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Emptying the cliptray.....

1. RELATED... How This Country Has Solved Homelessness Americans Have Lost Faith In Their Ability To Move From Poverty To Riches 26 Billionaires Own The Same Wealth As The Poorest 3.8 Billion People 2. https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c5c3679e4b00187b558e5ab/amp 3. https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c503844e4b0f43e410ad8b6 4. The approach is working. As homelessness rises across Europe, Finland’s numbers are falling. In 1987, there were around 18,000 homeless people. In 2017, there were 7,112 homeless people, of which only 415 were living on the streets or in emergency shelters. The vast majority (84 percent) were staying temporarily with friends or relatives. Between 2008 and 2015, the number of people experiencing long-term homelessness dropped by 35 percent. The reason? Finland approaches homelessness “as a housing problem and a violation of fundamental rights, both solvable, and not as an inevitable social problem resulting from personal issues,” said an analysis from Feantsa, a European network that focuses on homelessness. 5. from which people can start to rebuild. “Maybe it’s not perfect, maybe it’s not the dream you had when you were young but this is your own place,” said Alkila. Finland is not alone in following a housing first approach. It’s already being used in countries such as Denmark, Canada, Australia and also the U.S. Breaking Ground, a homelessness NGO that operates 4,000 housing units across New York and Connecticut, was one of the pioneers of a housing first approach, said CEO Brenda Rosen. They hear from 6. “We didn’t solve homelessness, we solved some part of it,” said Sanna Tiivola of the nonprofit No Fixed Abode (VVA). But, she added, when she goes to other countries and sees they are still leaning heavily on emergency shelters as a solution, “I always think, ahhh you’re still here. Why? Why are doing this shelter thing, no, no, no don’t do it! So that’s a visible change ... and that’s why I think people say that Finland solved homelessness.” 7. “My apartment is kind of a sanctuary … Before I lost my home I didn’t understand how much it meant, and when I lost it, within those three years, I kind of understand the little things in life make you happy,” he said. “I mean if I have dinner, little things, like if I have bread in my fridge later. Normal things.” For more content and to be part of the ‘This New World’ community, follow our Facebook page. 8. HuffPost’s ‘This New World’ series is funded by Partners for a New Economy and the Kendeda Fund. All content is editorially independent, with no influence or input from the foundations. 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Walter Clarence Thornton - Wikipedia

Walter Clarence Thornton

A portrait photo of Walter Thornton

Born(1903-04-03)April 3, 1903 DiedMay 14, 1990(1990-05-14) (aged 87) Resting placeRiverside National CemeteryNationalityAmericanOccupationModeling AgentYears active1929–1955Spouse(s)Judy Dolan (m.1934–1955) Candelaria Navarro (m.1960–1990)Children7

Walter Clarence Thornton (April 3, 1903 – May 14, 1990) was an American model agent best known for founding the Walter Thornton Model Agency in 1929 and his World War II era pin-up girls. Walter Thornton rose to success from being an orphan and a butcher cart driver.[1] He was a Miss America Judge in 1935.[2] His company represented adults as well as children and many of his clients achieved fame and success. He retired from the agency in 1958 and spent the rest of his life in Ajijic, Mexico.[3]

Walter Thornton Modeling Agency

After working as a model and posing for artists such as Arthur William Brown he gained connections in the modeling business and he started his own modeling agency, located in the Chrysler Building, in 1929.[4][5] As the Walter Thornton Modeling Agency grew, it was considered one of "Big Three", the largest model agencies in the United States, along with its competitors, John Robert Powers and Harry Conover.[6] His agency worked with famous models such as: Lizabeth Scott, Susan Hayward, Grace Kelly, Lauren Bacall, Hazel Brooks, Lucille Wilds, and Eleanor Cahill.[7][8][9][10][11][12] Walter Thornton supplied models to Alex Raymond for his comic book, Flash Gordon. A special autobiographical issue depicts Alex Raymond sketching panels using Walter Thornton model Patricia Quinn as a reference.[13] Starting in the mid-50's and continuing after Walter moved to Mexico, Walter Thornton modelling schools and agencies were opened in Canada.[14]

Pin-up girls

Walter Thornton's agency favored "wholesome girl-back-home type" models as opposed to his competition who tended to hire models that fell into the "glamorous show-girl type". pin-up girl. Many of his agency's pin-up girl photos were sent to G.I.s under General Powell during World War II.[15] The popularity of Thornton's pin-up girls led to charting singles such "Get a Pin-Up Girl!" by Don Wolf, "Pin-Up Polka" by Al Gamse and Irving Fields, and "The Walter Thornton Rumba" also by Gamse and Fields.[16]

Just Kids Photos

Walter Thornton ran a stock photo publication of children. Peggy Ann Garner was included in this publication and went on to win an award for her acting.[17]

Legal trouble

A series of legal issues and negative publicity starting in 1954 culminated in Walter Thornton's retirement from his modeling agency. Walter Thornton was arrested and charged with grand larceny, petit larceny, and conspiracy on January 26, 1954.[18][19] Walter Thornton said in a news article that the District Attorney who was prosecuting him, Quinn, didn't have a case and furthermore was just stirring up publicity to cover for his own legal problems.[20] Walter Thornton also had his modelling license suspended for sending clients to a photography office that he owned without disclosure.[21] The case was dismissed on June 3, 1954, by judge Peter T. Farreli of Queens county court in Jamaica, New York.[22] Thornton filed a lawsuit for $3,000,000 in damages against the Hearst Corporation on May 21, 1955 claiming he was libeled.[23]

Personal life

House built and lived in by Walter Clarence Thornton in Ajijic, Mexico

Thornton married one of his models, Judy Dolan, in 1934 and had one daughter, Daryl.[24] They separated when Walter moved to Mexico.

After retirement

In Ajijic, Mexico, Walter Thornton remarried to Candelaria Navarro and had six children with her: Walter Jr., Roberta Virginia, Adriana Anabel, Nancy Louella, Richard Orlando, Ethel Ivette.[25] He built a house decorated with mosaic tiles where he raised his children and lived until his health failed.[26] He died of a stroke in 1990.[27]

References

^ Dale Carnegie, From Editorial Page, The Pittsburgh Press, December 26, 1940

^ "Miss Philadelphia Fourth in 2d Test", Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, September 5, 1935

^ "Walter Thornton, Agent for Models, Dies of Stroke at 88", The New York Times, May 16, 1990

^ Dale Carnegie, From Editorial Page, The Pittsburgh Press, December 26, 1940

^ Eileen Evans-Smith, "Person to Person: Every Girl a Model?", Ottawa Citizen, Nov 13, 1962

^ "The Modeling Business", LIFE, Mar 25, 1946

^ 1944 Walter Thornton Model Agency calendar, Lizabeth Scott Model of the month

^ Kim R. Holston, Susan Hayward: Her Films and Her Life, p. 8, September 24, 2002

^ Wendy Leigh, True Grace: The Life and Times of an American Princess, p. 36, Jun 10, 2008

^ Terry Rowan, World War II Goes to the Movies & Television Guide Volume I A-K, p. 39, 2012

^ "Broadway's Answer to Hollywood", The Free Lance-Star, April 4, 1941

^ "Dream Girl", The Milwaukee Sentinel, December 31, 1939

^ "Modern Jules Verne", Flash Gordon #10, 1942

^ Eileen Evans-Smith, "Person to Person: Every Girl a Model?", Ottawa Citizen, November 13, 1962

^ Paul Dickson, War Slang: American Fighting Words, p. 198, Aug 1, 2014

^ "Music As Written", Billboard, Feb 26, 1949

^ "Walter Thornton, Agent for Models, Dies of Stroke at 88", The New York Times, May 16, 1990

^ "Merchant of Venus Head on Fraud Charges", Barrier Miner, January 27, 1954

^ "Thornton is Free in Model 'Racket'", The New York Times, June 03, 1954

^ "1000% Publicity", TIME, p. 86, February 8, 1954

^ "25 Models Aid Agency to Regain License", The New York Times, December 11, 1934

^ "Thornton is Free in Model 'Racket'", The New York Times, June 03, 1954

^ "Walter Thornton Sues For $3,000,000", Editor & Publisher, May 21, 1955

^ Betty Clark, "Model Wife Says Anyone Can Keep Spouse Charmed", St. Petersburg Times, Jun 3, 1945

^ "Walter Thornton, Agent for Models, Dies of Stroke at 88", The New York Times, May 16, 1990

^ Morris Reichley, "Arabian Nights", El Ojo del Lago

^ "Walter Thornton, Agent for Models, Dies of Stroke at 88", The New York Times, May 16, 1990

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Jazz, Rock, Blues i to co na ekranach leciało z Hollywood i ‘bliższego’ Zachodu...

Przetrwaliśmy Zimną Wojnę, groźne rakiety balistyczne wycelowane z Zachodu na Wschód i na odwrót. HURAAA! Polska mogła wtedy być (znowu!) ‘teatrem działań’ - ale na szczęście udało się, że nie... Czy to tamto wojsko ‘obrony terytorialnej’ nas uchroniło czy może bardziej bojowe oddziały?

Polska moda na powstania i ‘wojaków wyklętych’ znów ‘na topie’...

Moim prywatnym zdaniem, to nie te mundurki, groźne miny (te twarzowe i te zakopane w ziemi na DDR-owskim przedmurzu berlińskim i granicy z RFN), Mig-i 21 czy inny złom na gąsienicach przełamał w końcu betonowy Układ Warszawski.

To KULTURA NAS WYZWOLIŁA. I znów wcale nie ta oficjalna, ‘martyrologiczno - polityczno - historczna’ jaką kładli nam w głowy wtedy. (A której echa brzmią niestety znowu w wykonaniu pewnej Partii, ‘Znów Wiodącej Siły Narodu)...

Kultura spoza szkoły i wartkiego strumienia propagandy. Ta z UKF-u, ‘3-ch kwadransów jazzu’, magicznego programu 'Willis Conover przedstawia', prosto z zakazanego ‘Głosu Ameryki’ transmitowanmy w Pr. IV Polskiego Radia!

http://www.library.unt.edu/collections/music/willis-conover

Jazz i obrazy inne niż nasza szarość był też z kina, z płyt i nielicznych wtedy koncertów innych niż Sopot, Opole, Kołobrzeg, Zielona Góra i inne takie. Ale właśnie ta ‘przemycona’ niejako z Zachodu muzyka działała najlepiej! Nie była zakazana, tyle że b. droga, bo płyty z Zachodu mieli nieliczni...

Jazz z USA i ‘Polish Jazz’ zaraz potem... Jazz, muzyka czarnych niewolników rozmontowująca powolutku PRL nuta za nutą... I wyzwalając nas...

Polski plakat wtedy (i dzisiaj) - najlepszym na to dowodem...

JAZZ

Jazz to muzyka. A może już sztuka ? Początkujący wszystko obstuka. Co wybrać, mainstream, free, tradycyjny ? Początek wydaje się loteryjny. Są jeszcze fusion, latin, jazz-rock. Gdzie więc postawić ten pierwszy krok ?

W co wdepnąć, w dixie, swing, awangardę ? Wzbudzą twój podziw, czy też pogardę ? By zdobyć chęci do poznawania, trza zacząć od łatwego grania.

Każdy ze stylów ma wrogów i fanów, zaś przyszły jazzol nie snuje planów, czy tylko jeden wpadnie do ucha, bo taki ciekawski wszystkiego posłucha.

Z czasem, gdy dylematy prysną, powoli zostajesz specjalistą. A jeśli "classic" swe piętno odcisnął, oznacza, że jesteś już purystą.

Wiedz, dla purystów jedna rzecz święta - mus akustyczne instrumenta. Jak tylko zobaczą pianino "Fendera", to na nudności im się zbiera.

Lecz "Fender" mając dobre wyniki, otworzył drzwi dla elektroniki. Syntezatory się przebijały, mądrze użyte zbierały pochwały. Najpierw był "Moog", a potem "ARP", "Oberheim" - klawiszowców skarb. Pamiętam D6, clavinet "Hohnera". Dziś dawno zapomniana era..

W jazzie królują blaszane, drewniane, fortepian, gitara, reszta - przesrane. Jednak dobrze sięgnąć, od "wielkiego dzwonu", w wieczornym ukojeniu po dźwięki wibrafonu.

Kiedyś, gdy jazzman zaczynał od zera, chcąc kupić sobie saksofon "Selmera", trąbkę "Holtona" czy klarnet "Yamahy", musiał urobić się po pachy. Gdzie tylko się dało, moc chałturzył, jak brakowało, to się zadłużył.

A straight ahead się nie starzeje, bo "Kind Of Blue" wciąż duszę grzeje. Standardy, modern, electric, hip-hop. Taki był Davis. I Miles trzyma top.

Choć wiele sław już dawno nie żyje, jazzowe serce nadal bije. Zostały nagrania, co oczywista. A nieobecni.. To długa lista...

John Abercrombie Louis Armstrong Cannonball Adderley Chet Baker Gato Barbieri Count Basie Art Blakey Michael Brecker Dave Brubeck Benny Carter Betty Carter Ornette Coleman Alice Coltrane John Coltrane Larry Coryell Miles Davis Paul Desmond Duke Ellington Bill Evans Gil Evans Art Farmer Maynard Ferguson Ella Fitzgerald Tommy Flanagan Red Garland Stan Getz Dizzy Gillespie Benny Goodman Stephane Grappelli Johnny Griffin Dexter Gordon Jim Hall Coleman Hawkins Joe Henderson Woody Herman Billie Holiday Freddie Hubbard Milt Jackson Al Jarreau Antonio Carlos Jobim Elvin Jones Thad Jones Barney Kessel Rahsaan Roland Kirk Krzysztof Komeda Didier Lockwood Herbie Mann Carmen McRae Charles Mingus Thelonious Monk Wes Montgomery Gerry Mulligan Charlie Parker Joe Pass Jaco Pastorius Art Pepper Oscar Peterson Buddy Rich Zbigniew Seifert Woody Shaw Zoot Sims Jimmy Smith Sonny Stitt Stanley Turrentine Sarah Vaughan Grover Washington Jr. Ben Webster Phil Woods Joe Zawinul

Znacie kogoś ? Pozdrawiam. Siwy. ( 23 lutego 2018 )

JA ZNAM! n.p.:

1. Krzysztof (Trzciński) KOMEDA (1931–1969) - lekarz, kompozytor i pianista jazzowy, twórca standardów jazzowych i muzyki filmowej.

Marek Hłasko i Krzysztof Komeda ‘imprezują’. I niestety nienajlepiej się to skończyło a tak daleko obaj dojechali...

‘Interesowałem się muzyką poważną, potem taneczną, a w czasie studiów zacząłem grać muzykę jazzową zupełnie sam. Jedyną szkołą było radio...’ miał powiedzieć Komeda w wywiadzie n/t swojej kariery.

http://www.jazzarium.pl/przeczytaj/artyku%C5%82y/krzysztof-komeda-niewinny-czarodziej

2. Marek Bliziński (1947–1989) – gitarzysta jazzowy i kompozytor.

'Nie preferuję gitarzystów, słucham dużo saksofonistów i pianistów. Oczywiście cenię wszystkich wybitnych gitarzystów, od Charliego Christiana począwszy. Czczę Montgomery’ego, podziwiam Halla za jego mądrość, Passa za pełniejsze wykorzystanie gitary jazzowej. Cenię tych wszystkich, którzy rozszerzyli możliwości techniczne i brzmieniowe tego instrumentu'...

A TYMCZASEM....

W 1979 r. 11-14 lipca, w Lubaniu Śląskim pojawił się prawdziwy złoty pociąg... DO JAZZU.

Muzyczny Camping w Lubaniu... Byłem tam, słuchałem, pstrykałem... Poniżej - OSJAN!

http://eluban.pl/kultura/2034,muzyczny-camping-to-musiala-byc-impreza.htm

Po dużej dawce jazzu i relatywnie niewielkiej namysłowskiego (ciepłego?) piwa (nie mylić z jazzmanem Namysłowskim tam wtedy występującym chyba), koleżce z IVA, niejakiem Głowaczowi Cezaremu udaje się ‘lewitować’. A przynajmniej tak wtedy z uporem maniaka twierdził. Fakt, że technicznie, do lewitacji brakowało mu nie więcej niż centymetr czy dwa nad zdeptaną trawą campingu.

...tymczasem, niejaki Romek Detyna tamże nieopodal, intensywnie i w olimpijskim skupieniu przygotowuje się do próby bicia rekordu lewitacji, sprawdzoną empirycznie metodą doustno - medytacyjno - degustacyjną. Kolor płynu z ORWO-wskiego slajdu, wskazuje na obecność w próbce popularnej Pepsi-Coli lub jej rodzimej wersji znanej pod ‘kultową’ dziś nazwą ‘Polo-Cocta’.

(Bo dzisiaj wszysto z tamtego PRL-u może minus Jaruzel, Kiszczak i Lenin w Poroninie, gdzie ponoć złapał syfilis - jest ‘kultowe’... Cokolwiek to znaczy.)

Z ostatniej chwili:

Do redakcji nuttypeachtimemachine.tumblr.com zwrócił się czytelnik:

‘Szanowny Panie, niniejszym skladam wniosek o poprawienie nastepujacych niepoprawnych informacji (tzw. fake newsow) zamieszczonych pod nuttypeachtimemachine.tumblr.com:

"Po dużej dawce jazzu i relatywnie niewielkiej namysłowskiego (ciepłego?) piwa (nie mylić z jazzmanem Namysłowskim tam wtedy występującym chyba), koleżce z IVA, niejakiem Głowaczowi Cezaremu udaje się ‘lewitować’. ..."

Patrzac na zamieszczone obok fake newsa zdjecie widac od razu, ze butelka jest zamknieta, wiec o lewitacji po piwie mowy nie moze byc. Fakten jest, ze kilkucentymetrowa lewitacja (jak juz wspomnialem nie spowodowana piwem) spowodowana medytacja, miala razem z ta ostatnia spowodowac rozdzielenie zespolu butelka-kapsel w celu udostepnienia zawartosci butelki dla zlagodzenia skutkow choroby wysokosciowej zwiazanej ze wspomniana juz na wstepie lewitacja.

Z powazaniem Cezary (Lewitujacy) Glowacz

P.S. milo bylo sobie to i tamto przypomniec, dzieki’

Odp. Redakcji:

Wyjaśnienie przyczynowo - skutkowe jak i podziękowania - przyjmujemy. Niemniej gwoli ścisłości - naruszenie dziewictwa kapselka ciepłego piwa, (zwanego wtedy ‘bączkiem’) - mogło nastąpić PRZED lewitacją... Ale to jest temat na osobną debatę, z zimnym piwem.

Zapraszamy też do osobistego zaprezentowania umiejętnisci magicznych i paranormalnych 12 maja 2018 w gospodarstwie agroturystycznym w Bogdańczowicach. Liczna publiczność składająca się z niecertyfikowanych ekspertów i ekspertek ‘z epoki’ oraz certyfikowanych zwierząt pociągowych i dojnych - zapewniona podobnie jak napoje i posiłki.

Parametry do wpisania do GPS latającego dywanu ‘ STAJNIA DERA u Stodoły. Gospodarstwo Agroturystyczne Bogdańczowice 21, 46-233 Bąków. ‘ .Obiekt posiada dużą ilość przedmiotów do lewitacji jak ‘grabie, traktory, kozy itp.

Poniżej: Kluczbork, circa 1977. Przebieg zaawansowanego podziemnego eksperymnetu naukowego w wytapetowanym w stylu ‘z epoki’, mieszkaniu przy ul. Waryńskiego. (Adres znany redakcji).

Opis: obiekt na ścianie po lewej to potencjometryczny ściemniacz elektryczny. Osoba z prawej strony ściemniacza elektrycznego to potencjalnie rozjaśniacz fizyczny. Przedmiot lewitujący jest nieznanego pochodzenia ale można przypuszczać z pewną dozą grozy, że jest fragmentem pałki milicyjnej oderwanej siłą woli i kulturą osobistą z ręki zaskoczonego funkcjonariusza w trakcie wykonywania czynności służbowych.

Poniżej, eksperyment innego rodzaju w tym samym ‘laboratorium’: Marek filozofujący

Eksperyment wglądu w duszę Marka

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