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...started when one night last winter Mrs. Philip Burnham of Wilmington, Del. could not go to the Red Cross to fold bandages. Mr. Burnham went instead. Delaware bandage-folding has not been the same since...
...really a case of misnomer, for most jazz-lovers actually think of the Chicagoans and their influence when they speak of the Chicago style. Bud Freeman, not Chicago style is the father of the jam session tenor. Then, too, many of the original Chicagoans have left the fold. Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, who still gives us a faint aroma of Teschmaker, Muggsy Spanier, and countless others are fronting commercial or semi-commercial bands...
...World War I threatened, he drifted out of the fold, smashed a French railway strike by conscripting workers and putting them under army orders, was read out of the party in 1914. Clemenceau's successor as Premier in 1920, he was elected President nine months later...
...sheet with several editions; in its city room there is more noise and less paciencia than in most. La Prensa, which has 16 editorial writers and not one ad salesman, does not hesitate to criticize the government or anybody. In a cloistered courtyard, where grey-uniformed copy boys respectfully fold copy into a silver cup, to be pulleyed to editorial balconies, this great old paper represents a fine tradition of Western journalism...
What were consumer and service industries to do if they could not pay the additional overtime and make a profit under price ceilings? They were either to get along with a smaller staff working longer hours or-although the Government did not bluntly say so-fold up. Paul McNutt indicated that necessary exemptions would be made...