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...preparing a novel, foreshadowed in Eyeless in Gaza, of an unattached man? There is no such character in fiction, he claims. Or is he merely continuing with the practical work of the pacifist movement? Had he been very active during this period it seems probable that he would have gotten into enough trouble to make the news, and hence have appeared in your pages. Has he been suppressed? Or has he gone underground...
...WMCA for letting Besdine and Siegel broadcast their stuff, set about dramatizing stories of policyholders who claim to have been victimized by radio insurance counselors. "And, when you finally ask your agent," Commentator Edwin C. Hill tells the radio audience as the episode closes, "you learn you could have gotten that service-without paying a fee-just by consulting your own life insurance agent...
...fact that the suggestions made by the protesting Freshmen are so manifestly shallow and hurriedly gotten-up leads one to the inevitable conclusion that the whole outburst has been prompted by a personal indignation rather than by a constructive desire to rectify a pressing problem...
Notes between the notes: Most of the music stores in town (Briggs included) have finally gotten sheet copies of the Bob Zurke and Jesse Stacy piano solos. While they're not too easy to read, they're worth the try . . . To see just how much influence Louis Armstrong did exert on jazz, catch the opening bars in Erskine Hawkins' "Swing Out," his theme song . . . Art Tatum's piano on "Tea For Two" (Decca) while not real swing, is interesting enough technically to make listening...
Thus the strike had set up a perfect laboratory in which to test the most cherished and vital belief of all U. S. newspaper publishers: that local business cannot get along without them. Alarming result: it has gotten along quite well. In December, for instance, the bigger stores reported business up 6% over 1937; in January and February it was down 7% to 9% from 1938, about the same as in big-advertising New York City. At the same time merchants have saved up to 50% on their promotion and advertising budgets...