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Induction. Early in his Army career he pays a two-day visit to one of the Psychological Laboratory's 17 testing stations. He is seated in a chair, asked all manner of questions, submitted to unexpected electric shocks, put to work on an ergograph (machine to test muscle fatigue...
Western scales and harmonies do not seem to alarm the Chinese now. Their most popular song is March of the Volunteers, whose spare, vigorous melody was lately sung to Mme. Chiang Kai-shek by a group of children who had wandered 10,000 miles seeking refuge:
Critic Hammond was in for a long pestilence. For George Olsen and His Music, then playing at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel, picked Who? and made a sensational arrangement of it. Victor transferred the arrangement to a disc, and soon the exciting, eminently singable melody was the U.S.'s...
For two days the Daily Double payoffs (a separate pool calculated like any other pari-mutuel payoff) were puny. Then on the third day 31 punters, lucky enough to have tickets on War Melody and Early Settler, got $881.70 apiece for their $2 investment.* Said Belmont's Pari-Mutuel...
An event of considerable importance to the juke boxes of the U.S. Southwest occurred last week when Decca recorded Ramon Armengod, Mexico's Bing Crosby, singing Amor, Amor, Amor, Mexico's "new song." It is a cancion bolero with a lovely, lazy melody and a fetching Franz Lehar...