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...committee proved that if there ever was a free-lancer named George Crosley, he had an extremely tough time of it. A search of the Library of Congress' extensive catalogues showed that one G. Crosley had had a book, of poems published in 1905 (when Chambers was four years old) and one G. E. Crosley, a medical doctor, had written a pamphlet on ultraviolet light in 1936. There was no record of a "George Crosley" having broken into print any time, anywhere during Chambers' lifetime...
Back from a desperate search for a human-interest story, a Minor sport-writer wrote: "Ed Barrow, the Babe's rough, tough baseball father, pulled up the shade on the years to let the sunshine of the Bambino's rollicking history pour through the room of his tree-shrouded Rye home as he abstractedly nodded: 'Babe Ruth was just a human citizen-a human American citizen.'" Westbrook Pegler, putting his worst (kickless) foot forward, told how Ruth, "a burly oaf [who] could suck half a pound of tobacco and spit through his ears," had autographed...
...weekly tourist bulletin, was only half right. The days were quiet enough for the 350 stargazers of the International Astronomers' Union, who met last week for the first time since 1938. But after eight days, some of their conclusions had become important mileposts in man's continuing search to find out more about his universe...
...months, he had worked on a Ph.D. thesis on "River Showboats and Their History." Burrowing through books, and wandering 20,000 miles up & down the river in search of material, he couldn't find all he needed to know about the subject. The best thing to do, he decided, was to run a showboat himself...
...Sweetness. Actually, Hackett's playing didn't show the great Beiderbecke's hallmarks-the exciting, edgy undertones of heat, or the restless, spontaneous search within a severely disciplined pattern. But it did show, then and last week, a beautifully clear melodic line, tasteful invention and a sad sweetness that tempered everything he played from Embraceable You to Jada...