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...needed cash to buy an ever-rising flood of Government bonds. Whatever the reason, this is a good break for private investors: 1) it makes up for the wartime slack in new municipal financing (towns & cities cannot get materials for new construction); 2) it gives them a crack at topflight bonds which have a good yield and are tax-exempt to boot. Result: private investors have already bought enough municipal bonds to knock the floating supply down to about $50,000,000-a mere drop in the market compared with the potential demand...
Tall, genial Frank H. Bartholomew, 44, is a newsman who has in his time covered for the United Press such topflight news stories as the William Desmond Taylor murder in Los Angeles, the Thalia Fortescue Massie assault case in Honolulu, the Santa Barbara earthquake, the loss of the dirigible Macon. In 1938 he stopped reporting, became a United Press vice president, in charge of the Pacific Coast area. As such he sat behind a San Francisco desk, sent other United Pressmen forth to Pacific battlefields. But Frank Bartholomew grew restless...
...usual starting six tonight. Caleb Loring, Marc Beebe, and Bill Harding form a high-scoring front line, Captain Johnny Paine and Dick Mechem are at defensive posts, and Goodie Harding is at goal. The puck-Chasers are looking ahead to Saturday evening, when they journey to Tigertown and meet topflight opposition, in the form of a tough Princeton six, for the first time...
...last week's birthday concert, six surviving leaguers had written special compositions. They were performed by such topflight artists as Soprano Marjorie Lawrence and the Budapest Quartet. The small audience politely applauded the work of Boston-born Walter Piston (Quintet for Flute and Strings), Brooklyn-born Aaron Copland (Birthday Piece, On Cuban Themes For Two Pianos), French-born Darius Milhaud (string quartet), California-born Frederick Jacobi (songs about the prophet Nehemiah), Czech-born Bohuslav Martinu (Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano). Hit of the evening came at the program's close with Russian-born Louis Gruenberg...
...Norman Corwin, topflight U.S. radio dramatist, went to England last summer to try something that U.S. radio had not done before. He wanted to explain England to Americans by short-waving his dramatized observations of the English. Sunspots and short-wave incorrigibility spoiled U.S. reception of four of his seven broadcasts from Britain. Last week, at home under the happier auspices of U.S. medium wave, Corwin tried again-and scored...