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...harpoon for Pan Am came in a statement of policy: "There can be no rational basis for permitting" air transport outside the U.S. to be "left to the withering influence of monopoly." To implement the new "free" policy, the 16 airlines served notice on CAB that they will promptly file petitions for permission to operate worldwide air routes...
...Fire under CAB. Why is General Arnold suddenly so interested in postwar air competition? One likely reason: the Army has decided that the more U.S. companies operate air routes to foreign countries, the better the Army will be equipped to handle postwar emergencies...
Boston music doesn't seem to have been particularly affected by the current heat wave. The Ken was left dank and dismal last Sunday afternoon, with not even Pete Brown showing up to relieve the monotony. Cab Calloway and the RKO stage shows. Louis Jordan at the Tis Tec, had a pretty good little hand back in the days of the Decco into six album, and even later than that is the days of "Knock Me A Kiss, and Mama, Mama Blues"; but now he's building up a reputation for having the biggest little comedy band in the country...
...Bill Robinson), from the moment after World War I when he marches up Broadway to the strains of Jim Europe's wonderful band, to the moment after Pearl Harbor when a proud singer (Lena Horne) finally sees it his way and they face the stentorian marriage blessing of Cab Calloway. A great many types of Negro entertainment are represented: some good, some not so good...
...Cab Calloway is more a matter of taste-a haberdashing showman who is bound to worry the discriminating by tearing the passions of jazz to tatters. Lena Horne sings with high lavender virtuosity, and audiences will divide on whether she is truly elegant or merely too refined. Katherine Dunham's pretentious ballet troupe is also likely to split the vote...