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Weary Worker. Most revealing of all was a letter published by the Manhattan Communist weekly, New Masses. The New Masses said the letter was written by a skilled German worker and smuggled out of Germany. The straightforward style of an intelligent, high-grade workman was supporting evidence of its authenticity...
Publisher John Sanner of Anamosa (Iowa) News got a wire from Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne, offering him $236 to run a series of ads, part of B.B.D. & O.'s whirlwind enlistment campaign for the Navy. Publisher John, aged 10 and now in the fifth grade, wired back that he couldn't handle 8,000 lines in his 3 by 7 in., four-page, rubber-type weekly on which, last issue, he netted $1.38. Result of the ensuing publicity: News circulation rose from 75 to 100 and Publisher Sanner decided to buy a new press...
...rejuced aftherwards, but, no matther, I was a Corp'ril wanst"). Last week the U.S. Army announced, in effect, that no Mulvaneys were wanted. After their three-year enlistment, regular privates will not be allowed to re-enlist unless they are worthy of promotion to higher grade (i.e., noncommissioned rank) or have specialists' ratings...
...Elected as president (without opposition) plump, middle-aged Mrs. Myrtle Hooper Dahl, a Minneapolis fourth-grade teacher. Mrs. Dahl's platform: U.S. children should be taught to 1) hate tyranny, 2) love...
Clarinetist Pete Davis ' moves out of Manhattan's 46th Street into a series of low-grade dates in Pennsylvania in the early '20s, winds up with a topflight, ill-paid hot outfit in Chicago. His pianist brother Frank sticks to the seaboard; his greater talent and his tameness betray him into the venal successes of the "swing" rage. Between the two of them they cover most of the salient features of jazz and Jazz-living among white musicians. There is some sore stuff on that corrupt necessity, the musician's union, and an interesting passage about...