Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reason the dealers are so upset is that they depend on the high (in most cases, two-dollar) prices charged for Red Seal Classical records to give them their profits, feeling that the jazz helps only slightly, and serves more as a "loss-leader" or traffic enticement. In other words, It's very hard to run a store on just jazz records alone, unless you have a tremendous volume of business. The dealers are afraid that people will but the lower-priced, lower-profit-making Black Label, and endanger their greatest source of profit...
...make any mistake. The records are good, all electrically recorded with the exception of a rather suspicious-sounding Tschaikowsky "Nuboracker Suite." As a matter of fact, but for slightly higher surface noise and a little less high frequency, the records are almost as good as their Red Seal counterparts. From the standpoint of the record buyer, this is the best thing that has happened since electrical recording. It means good classical cheaply priced--a triumph of modern production method...
...answer would appear obvious. Yet the H.S.U. hesitates to take the step which last fall it implied it would take should the Gottlieb referendum fail to go through. The advantages of national unity seem to have influenced yesterday's decision to remain within the Red pale. But these organizational "advantages" consist principally of Communist selected literature and speakers--a negligible return for the fifty cents out of every dues dollar, which the H.S.U. annually pays its national affiliate. And the disadvantages of continued A.S.U. connections are enormous. Intangible but still real is the question of lost prestige on the Harvard...
...Red's captain, George Polzer, heads the individual batting list in the race for the Charles H. Blair Bat. He has an average of .571 on eight hits in 14 at bat. He was second to Harvard's Ulysses Lupien last year. Polzer also has batted in mot runs, ten, and with a teammate, Ronnie Stillman, has scored the most runs, seven, as well as having gained most total bases, 13. Another Cornellian, Walter Scholl, leads in the competition for the Princeton A. A. Cup, emblematic of league base-stealing championship...
This week the nine has a suicide schedule on the books. On Wednesday the alumni will appear on Soldiers Field for an informal practice game and on Friday the Big Red team from Cornell moves into town. Saturday the Crimson travels to Worcester to meet Holy Cross...