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...experience of other colleges in the East points to the conclusion that debating, like so many things, begins at home, and not until the Council directs its appeal to the talent which lies now dormant in the various Houses can the Debating Council hope to plant deep roots in the soil of the college. It may be pleasant to suck the honeyed nectar of applause from local Junior Leagues from time to time, but only from audiences of Harvard students can come the support which the Council needs. It the Council should aim its rays at this untapped source...
...GOOD AMERICANS-Jerome Bahr- Scribner ($2.50). Thirteen short stories in a Winesburg, Ohio framework, by a young writer whose talent will bear watching. Novelist Ernest Hemingway praises these stories for "their solid, youthful worth, their irony, their humor, their peasant lustiness." ALLI'S SON-Magnhild Haalke-Knopf ($2.50). Sombre Norwegian story of a young sailor's wife whose son becomes a psychopathic case; a first novel recommended to U. S. readers by Nobel Prize-winner Sigrid Undset...
...John Held, Jr., pepfully introduces a lens sexy youth as he brings the talent of a real campus before the NBC microphone each Friday night...
More remarkable than the fact that a music publisher and band impresario had thus set up an ideal outlet for his melodies and minstrels was the fact that Mr. Mills has cornered enough talent and is enough of a power in the popular music industry to make it worth American Record's while to deal with him as an independent producer. Last year Irving Mills turned down $750,000 from Twentieth Century-Fox for the properties of Mills Music, Inc., which owns the world's largest collection of copyrighted popular tunes. On the books of Mills Artists...
...began Mills Artists, now the largest and most profitable string of talent man aged by one man. Mr. Mills's "piece" of Negroes Ellington and Calloway is 50% and 33% respectively. From white per formers, Manager Mills usually gets 10% and 15% of their earnings...