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...nice easy-going style, with bass figures somewhat more elaborate than those of Meade Lux . . . Since I wrote about ASCAP-BMI I learned from a very unreliable source that the whole thing has been settled. It seems that ASCAP gave in and has made some sort of settlement offer. The story is supposed to break Monday, but as usual, Miller gets there first. (I hope...
Pond's contract, at $8,000 per annum, was not due to expire until next year, and some settlement will have to be made. Nelson is understood to have agreed to a salary of $5,000, right in line with Yale's recent decision to slash the athletic budget wherever possible. Yale's grid gate receipts were $100,000 below expectations this fall, making it necessary for Ogden Miller to tighten the Blue athletic belt without giving up big-time football...
...first sting of winter hung over a dying city on the Soochow mud flats last week. Its International Settlement had been under Japanese military domination since August. Its tide of fleeing foreigners had reached flood last month with the evacuation of U. S. citizens; its foreign colony had shrunk to a scattering of bitter-enders: U. S. taipans unwilling to leave. White Russians and anti-Nazi refugees unable to leave, British nationals who had no place...
...Texas Panhandle is a high (4,000 ft.) plateau, famed for its freakish weather, its cities that rise abruptly above the plain, its ranches, wheat and oil fields. It is so flat and landmarks are so rare that around Amarillo (pop. 52,000) early settlers plowed furrows from settlement to settlement to guide travelers across the trackless, treeless expanse. One such furrow was about 150 miles long. It was so bleak that an army officer who explored it in 1849 reported: "This country is, and must remain, uninhabited forever." Its wind and weather became so famous that Texans said, "There...
...Vultee Aircraft strike at Downey, Calif., which had dragged on through twelve days of haggling, had held up $84,000,000 worth of U. S. Government and British orders for training planes. Its chief organizer was slick, veteran Wyndham Mortimer, of United Automobile Workers. Just before a settlement was reached R. J. Thomas, president of the auto workers, carried to the strikers some strong words of advice from Murray and the Defense Commission's Sidney Hillman. The final terms raised the basic pay of workers from 50? to 62? an hour, provided for 16 months of operation at Vultee...