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...average was Persia's. In 4000 B. C. Persia got started. The Greeks and Romans, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, came & went, and still Persia was going strong. Not until the 18th Century, after some 6,000 continuous years of art, culture and prosperity, did Persia finally bite the dust. Even then it was European commercial competition, more than her own decay, that killed...
Last week the FM crowd, headed by Major Armstrong, moved on Washington to argue before the Federal Communications Commission for air room in the radio spectrum. Chief aims: 1) exclusive rights to the 3,000-kc., ultra-short-wave band they now share plus a 6,000-kc. bite of television's 12,000-kc. claim, just beyond; 2) power increases; 3) commercial status. Hearings will go on for two weeks...
...louse may be the greatest of war's horrors," the editorial opened. "By the disgust that it produces, by the sleeplessness that results from it, by the ubiquity of the skin lesions, and by the mortal disease [typhus fever] that it carries in its bite, it surpasses any. Because it is unremitting, the soldier dreads it more than artillery fire. . . . From the slow crawl of the louse over his body there is no respite. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow it will...
...Thelma Bowman Spear, 36, who claimed she was Lewisohn's common-law spouse, shouted: "I have been his wife, his muse, his soul"; in Baltimore, Md. Next day Miss Spear turned up in Manhattan (where the Lewisohns were honeymooning). Newsmen, photographers heard her plaints, watched Son Jimmy, 6, bite her hand, scream: "I never did like you. I want to go to my father." (Newlywed Papa Lewisohn plans to sue for his custody...
...heat," "bite" that makes good swing thrilling is completely lacking here. McBride's solo work is interesting technically, but adds up to some strings of spaghetti as far as getting any, idea of swing across. A written solo is so polished that it loses the life which is the essence of swing. It's too full of notes--if you don't believe it, listen to this record, and then to some of the old Goodman Trio records or Irving Fazola's doings with Bob Crosby...