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Jitterbugs and night owls twiddled their dials, got, instead of their accustomed Gene Krupa, Eddy Duchin, Tommy Dorsey, et al., a new crop of studio musicians-trios, quartets, unknown bands, variety shows. No one liked this much, but at week's end no one had moved to break the deadlock...
...Others: Geoffrey Dawson, editor of the London Times, the late John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada), Sir Patrick Duncan, Governor General of Union of South Africa, et...
...entitled him to rest. He let little of his work be published, let as few people as possible see the scores from which he and his orchestra played in concert. At a rehearsal, he would indicate tempi, toss off a few notes of a cadenza, infuriate everyone by remarking "Et cetera, Messieurs," and knock off. During Paganini's life, the only way a fiddler could learn anything about his style was to listen in a concert hall. This was not much help: not for many years could anyone figure out how to play his best-known, most difficult works...
Apparently Satchel got strong by shouldering 200-lb. blocks of ice. Last week his old ice-wagon employer recalled his prodigious appetite: "That boy et mo' than the bosses." Satchel was born 31 years ago on Mobile's South Side. The boy played on the sandlots, then with a semi-pro outfit, then with the Chattanooga Black Lookouts. Up in the big time, he was the ace of the Pittsburgh Crawfords for seven years. The famed Homestead (Pa.) Grays snatched him up, and he found himself riding high on $250 a game, averaging one game a week. Last...
...Disturbed by undergraduate pacifism. Yaleman Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress, accused the writers of his own generation (Ernest Hemingway, Walter Millis, John Dos Passos, Richard Aldington, et al.) of disarming the U. S. Said he (at a convention of the American Association for Adult Education in Manhattan): "The moral and spiritual unpreparedness of the country is worse than its unpreparedness in arms. . . . The effect [of these authors' books] has been to immunize the young generation against any attempt in its own country by its own leaders to foment a war by waving moral flags and rhetorical phrases. But they...