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...would end today and Davis Cup tennis could be resumed next week, athletes with names as foreign as some of the present-day battle sites would be the competitors." Thus mused hardy, red-haired Mary Hardwick, England's No. 1 woman tennist, now touring U.S. Army & Navy posts for the sole purpose of playing a few sets of tennis with homesick soldiers and sailors...
Though epilepsy is common-one in every 200 has it-the disease is the subject of two popular fallacies: 1) epileptics are "backward," 2) nothing can be done for epilepsy. The facts: epilepsy is no bar to genius-history's epileptics, according to present-day neurologists, include Caesar, Mohammed, Napoleon, Dostoevski; some 60 to 80% of epilepsy can be helped or cured by drugs (usually bromides, phenobarbital or dilantin sodium), surgery or change in living habits...
...composer in particular, mainly because he wrote so much music that is not suited to present-day mediums of performances, has been the transcriber's prize scapegoat. Johann Sebastian Bach has suffered more at the hands of conductors and who-knows-whats than should happen to even a composer. The Brandenburg Concerti, for example, are written for small groups of string instruments, yet they have been presented, as is also the case with the Corelli Suite for Strings, with entire symphony or chestra string sections. It is true that the music had been transcribed. What that nasty word seems...
...largest military hospital that ever existed in the U.S. was the Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond in the Civil War. It had 9,000 beds in 150 wooden buildings much like modern temporary barracks (the biggest present-day civil hospitals are state institutions for the insane, which rarely exceed 5,000 beds...
Other albums, the Decca Chicago Album, and the Bud Freeman album of the old Wolverine numbers of Bix Beiderbecke, are living proofs of the non-existence of true Chicago style since its decline at the beginning of the thirties. The present-day Chicagoans, Bud Freeman, Jimmy McPartland, Eddie Condon, Pee-wee Russell, Joe Sullivan, George Wettling, and all the rest have stuck together, but their music is not a style...