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Raymond Scott-brother of Hit Parader Mark Warnow-began his career with a "Quintet" which contained six players, wrote brittle, sophisticated jazz pieces with titles like Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals. In the past year Leader Scott has had a dance band, has toured up & down the land, is proud that he knows how to pronounce names like Manitowoc, Wis. His tour has also taught him how to drive an automobile blind: to take one look at a parking space, back into it without taking another; to memorize a turn the first time, drive it shut-eyed...
...joyfully back to a Bailey speech of October 10, 1939, when the North Carolinian had said: "We are not going to get into this war. It is a European war. It is not our war. . . . If we were to get into it I should think we were the greatest pack of fools history has ever recorded...
...could make human beings of the waifs, Amala and Kamala, Singh had to break them of their deeply ingrained wolf ways. They had to be tied into bed, tore off clothing as savagely as wolf cubs, dreaded daylight, at night howled eerily as they had with the jungle pack, at ten, one and three o'clock. They lapped milk from a dish in imitation of the orphanage dogs, whose company they preferred to other children's. They craved raw meat, and Kamala was once caught devouring chicken entrails which her sensitive wolf-nose had located in a garbage...
...very friendly terms, and refused to rise to the strains of the "Internationale." The general furore which followed considerably upset the Professor, so he went to some friends in the foreign office and explained that he didn't want to cause any trouble, but perhaps he had best pack up and go to Nazi Germany, where an American citizen could get the proper respect. Result: Czech back down. This is a typical illustration of "Karpy's" way of handling a situations: quiet and to the point...
...report. He had made 389 parachute jumps, sailed through the air on silken wings many a time as one of the original "batmen." Last week the Air Corps announced his assignment to school for a neglected phase of his education: Private Bill Cook was being taught how to pack one of the parachutes he had often used...