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When Washington's eloquent little Senator Homer Bone asked the question that invariably has cornered interventionists before-what is worse than war? Austin answered: "I say that a world enslaved to Hitler is worse than war, and worse than death. A country whose boys will not go out to fight to save Christianity in the world and to save the principle of freedom from ruthless destruction by a fiend-well, we do not find such boys in America...
...galleries roared applause. Bone sat down. The debate went...
...depots and area stations. Remount's buyers travel some 50,000 miles a year over highways and byways, up the creek forks, in fields, pastures, cactus and brush. Sellers know these men want a sturdy, clean-footed, straight-legged horse that "travels right" (straight, no pacers), has good bone, short backs for Army saddles, that they prefer a horse that is ½ to ⅞ thoroughbred, that 75% of the horses they buy are from the Remount's own studs. The horses must stand 15.1 to 16.1 hands high, weigh 1,050 to 1,300 pounds...
This was not completely silly. Megalonyx jeffersoni is so recent that its bones sometimes bear wisps of hair. Paleontologist Patterson thinks that cave men helped to exterminate the creatures though "an embrace from a sloth would have made a bear's hug look like child's play." In expecting to bag a Megalonyx, Jefferson was not "wrong by more than a few thousand years." As bone-diggers measure time, this was only day before yesterday...
...VICTOR recording of Altitude is somewhat over-arranged, but the solos are worth hearing. The tune was written by Irving Ashby, Little Dixie '40. . . Record of the week: VICTOR'S reissue of Dickie Wells Blues, cut a few years ago in Europe. It's just a slow blues from bone solo with rhythm backing, but Dickie has a wealth of ideas, and plays with great feeling. Reverse is Bill Coleman Blues, with Coleman on the trumpet backed by guitarist Django Reinhardt. Trumpet is muted all the way through, and the music is at once restrained in attack yet powerful...