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...take three notes and make them mean more than fifty by anybody else. The reasons are his magnificently emotional tone and his ability to phrase so simply and sincerely that the notes take on meaning and life. They cease to be mere technical cadenzas or glissandos and become a pattern that conveys an idea. It is for developing this idea of emotional simplicity, of taste in playing, and of making a solo and ideas contained within it a unified whole that Louis is acclaimed as the papa of most good jazz in this country...
Three Areas were set up (the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Natural Sciences), which cut across departmental lines. Within the individual "areas" certain "pattern" fields have been suggested...
...Staff Malin Craig is an isolationist of the first water, genuinely believes the U. S. Army should be fitted to the minimum necessities of simple defense. Charles Edison's good friend, Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson, has the job of expanding it to a larger Roosevelt pattern, hence is in conflict with General Craig and Secretary of War Woodring, whom Mr. Johnson still hopes to replace...
...also, in exhaustive detail and supplemented by analyses of 81 paintings (147 are reproduced), the means by which the effect was attained, e. g., an economy which used the same brush strokes to create volumes, to set them in deep perspective, and to make a decorative, mosaic-like surface pattern...
Thereupon last week's look-see into insurance began to diverge from the Armstrong pattern of 33 years ago. The Armstrong Commission was primarily interested in insurance by itself; the Monopoly Committee is out to survey "the economic power inherent in the vast investment funds controlled by insurance companies. . . ." Today the largest 49 legal reserve companies hold 11% of the U. S. debt, 9.9% of all outstanding municipal bonds, 22.9% of all railroad bonds, 22% of the public utility debt, 15% of the industrial debt, 14.5% of urban mortgages. The Metropolitan alone now invests...