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...stimulated by foreign recognition of their musical possibilities, Spaniards, began to apply themselves with greater success to serious composition. By combining characteristics of their national folk song with a basic European idiom the modern Spanish school has developed a brilliant style full of highly decorated melodies and dancelike rhythms. . . Selections from Iberia by Albeniz are the only familiar pieces from the modern group, which includes works by Rodriguo, and Rodolpho and Ernesto Halffter...
Pullman, No. 1 streamline-builder, today has about 1,000 lightweight cars on the rails (Budd 300). As its basic material Pullman alternates between aluminum alloy, which has about the same strength as stainless, and Cor-Ten, U. S. Steel's patented alloy. Cor-Ten's elastic strength is only about twice carbon steel's, and Cor-Ten cars are heavier than stainless or aluminum, but Pullman's steel cost is much lower than Budd's. Cor-Ten cars are spot-welded, but since aluminum cannot be structurally welded, Pullman does a sleek riveting...
Died. Arsene Paulin Pujo, 78, tall, stately, renowned chairman of the trust-busting Pujo Congressional committee of 1911-13; of pneumonia, in Lake Charles, La. The Pujo committee was the first to third-degree J. P. Morgan Sr. and his "inner circle" of finance control; it was basic for the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914, the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange...
Last week Benny had a record released on Columbia that seems to me to be one of the few real swing records he has ever made, in the sense that it has the teady, easy push that made Basic famous. The first half of the record is really colossal before Ziggy Elman ruins the groove by one of the most idealess solos I have ever heard...
...York, Mike Niedorf, claims that this is bunk, that if and when Shaw forms a new band he will be delivered otherwise not . . . Columbia expects to release soon a piano album of eight sides with one side apiece by Jesse Stacy, Clarence Profit, Mary Lon Williams, Count Basic, Jimmy Johnson, Pete Johnson, and others. This reviewer heard several test pressings and if all the rest are as good the album will be really colossal. . . . Raymond Scott has been doing very well with a little ditty entitled "In An Eighteenth Century Drawing Room," swiped from one of the earlier efforts...