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Current History. In The Bronx, Manufacturer Edwin Klahn, who had an order for 200,000 paper containers but not quite enough machinery, turned a rolling pin into a pulley, an egg beater into a gear, went into production...
...assortment of musicians has been using radio the last four months to lead a new trend in U.S. music. It is a deliberate trend back to the corniest ragtime possible. The City Slickers under Lindley Armstrong ("Spike") Jones have made their greatest hit with a barnyard version of the Bronx-cheerful Der Führer's Face. Jones's name for it: "A very violent comic type of music...
...Phantom. In The Bronx, Robert Johnson failed to outwit the police. They charged he threw a barrel full of ashes through a tailor-shop window, went in and emptied the barrel, filled it up with clothes, and tried to make his getaway wrestling his burden down the street...
Imperial Industrial Corp., under its portly, bespectacled President Max Kortlander, occupies the third floor of a rambling brick factory in the upper fringes of The Bronx. It seldom advertises, does much of its retailing through big concerns like Sears, Roebuck and Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. Its customers are mostly U.S. farm families. To this small but steady market, Imperial sells approximately half a million pianola rolls a year. Biggest current sellers: When the Lights Go on Again, Moonlight Becomes You, The Beer Barrel Polka, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life, The Star-Spangled...
...learned the clarinet and piano. He never made the big time as a jazz pianist. But as a good "paper man" (i.e., a musician who can read, write and arrange music) he got a job with a Harlem music publisher, later with Q.R.S. in The Bronx. He has made over 20,000 arrangements for pianola rolls...