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Worse yet, jazz is ultimately the musical (sic!) expression of coition. And while coition and religion in times past have not been totally unrelated, this relationship has found opponents (Hosea, et al.) and is still in some disfavor with the church...
Conversation (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). Nancy Kelly, Max Lerner et al. discuss the "ideal spouse...
...supply mortgage money for about 37% of the nation's houses. From now on, they must finance new mortgages out of savings and loan repayments only, not by borrowing from the Federal Home Loan Bank. Despite other attempts to slow the boom by restricting credit (TIME, Aug. 8 et seq.), there is little evidence that they have yet had any effect. Items...
...shock absorbers in the older places. In one new hotel there were so many bosses that some were unknown to each other. The new hotels were also overstaffed, and could not get the all-important entertainers-Danny Thomas, Jimmy Durante, Joe E. Lewis, Martin & Lewis, Tony Martin, et al.-that brought in the suckers; the stars were already sewed up in three-year deals by the established hotels...
...discovery of the yarn was a fluke. During World War II Switzerland's Heberlein and Co., and France's Billion et Cie. were trying to find a way to make ersatz wool. They failed to do so, but in the process made a nylon yarn that would stretch. In the Heberlein method, fibers are twisted, and the twist is set by heat, a sort of permanent-wave process. Then the fibers are broken down into single filaments, and those with a right-hand twist are plaited with others with a left-hand twist. The result is a soft...