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...staff of this newly founded organ consists of Hays Cross, George Boddiger, Charles Honig, Martin Worthy, Bill Seiniger, Jim Nolan, Louis Pollack, Richard D. Robinson, and Milbank Pillsbury...
...dull notes for the Chicago Symphony programs for years. The Chicago Daily News, on a policy of penny-wisdom, has been having its syrupy art critic, C. J. Bulliet, triple in brass: he writes not only music but movies and the theater. The Times has a stockbroker, R. J. Pollack, who writes music notes in his spare time (which is what many brokers have a lot of in 1942). The Herald-American has its patriarch, 83-year-old Herman DeVries, but usually crunches his opinions into two paragraphs, no matter what the event...
Finally there is George Frazier's Saturday morning session at eleven-fifteen on WEEI. George isn't quite as at case as he is in print five days a week, but something interesting always happens. Last week Ben Pollack divulged in an interview that Benny Goodman used to play cornet occasionally in the most exciting Bix Beiderbecke vein. Of late, the program has included at times a record-spotting quiz, at which this column will be represented tomorrow, along with Count Basic, Al Morgan, and perhaps Lionel Hampton...
...There was some split second tunesmithing. In Hollywood, a few hours after the news from Pearl Harbor, Composer Lew Pollack and Lyricist Ned Washington produced a number which Comedian Bert Wheeler sang that night at Ciro's: Oh, we didn't want to do it, but they're asking for it now. So we'll knock the Japs right into the laps of the Nazis. . . . They'll hear the beat of a million feet of people who'd rather fight than eat, And here we come, here we come. I'd hate...
...Britain and to oppose war, William M. Wood the courage explicitly to favor the President's program--and all three, looking on the formulation of their own views as a national responsibility, regard it equally as their duty to protect the propagation of opposing views . . . Louis H. Pollack...