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jazz age: poignancy of the brief

” This timeless moment… warm, mindless, immediate” … John Held Jr.’s moment came with the season of Coolidge prosperity, a season so warmly sunlit that few noticed the slanting rays were autumnal. The conflicts of the postwar adjustment period were … Continue reading

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flapping those jazz babies

( see link at end) If ever an artist’s work so consummately defined a particular era, it was that of the Roaring Twenties illustrator John Held, Jr., whose creations both set the standard for-and gently ribbed-a generation. More than any … Continue reading

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truman kaput & harry the hipster

It was an era of the general entertainer. Ronny Graham’s parents were both vaudeville players towards the end of that epoch and Graham was a multi-talented performer: comedian, composer, lyricist, actor. Like his contemporaries which were Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce … Continue reading

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