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...some 44% of the output of U. S. popular records, plays them at a nickel a throw in bars, dance dives and lunch counters throughout the U. S. In its simple form, the juke-box is complete with coin slots, colored lights and automatic record-changing mechanism for a stack of twelve to 24 discs. But during the past year, in a few western and midwestern U. S. cities, the juke-box has been menaced by science's onward march. The menace: a chain system of jukeboxes, all wired to a central studio with a practically unlimited choice...
...office certainties like Chu-Chin-Chow. Be fore an audience of men in soft shirts, women carrying gas masks, that old historic spectacle last week made its 2,239th performance. Oldsters were disappointed in Lyn Harding's performance in Chu-Chin-Chow, said it didn't stack up with that of beefy Oscar Asche, who played the part for years during and after World War I, when London was teeming with soldiers on leave and shows coined money...
Born. To Ann Prunella Stack, Britain's "Perfect Girl" and head of the Women's League of Health and Beauty, and Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, amateur boxer, R. A. F. officer, and youngest son of the Premier Peer of Scotland: their first child, a boy. Weight: 9 Ibs. Prospective name: Diarmaid (pronounced Dermod), Gaelic for Dermot...
...order to keep down the damned lopsidedness of your incoming mail I'm contributing my bit to the stack of isolationist and pacifist letters that you will surely receive. . . . If this is the only letter you receive to chalk up on the calm side of your War Score Board, I'll have to start thinking about that two-by-four island in the Caribbean again...
...John Weld-Scribner ($2.75). John Weld's novel recounts the ardors, agonies and occasional pleasures of a wagon train in its ox-paced procession, in the year 1846, from Independence, Mo. to California. The collective difficulties stack up, in the course of nearly 500 pages, into considerable pain and narrative power. The troubles of the naively conceived individuals are considerably less impressive...