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...Last month Jack Robbins decided to take a chance on it. By last week, with a sale of 350,000 sheet-music copies, it was already the biggest Tin Pan Alley freak hit since Yes, We Have No Bananas and The Music Goes 'Round and Around. Bandleader Al Trace, who had introduced the song at Broadway's Hotel Dixie, had made the first recording (for Hit Records). Said he: "People get so annoyed by the words, they go out and buy it. It's just the darndest thing...
...blood donor sighed with relief last week when he read an excited dispatch from London announcing that beef blood plasma can be used for human transfusions. But the use of beef blood is not new: doctors have long known that it could replace human blood plasma-if every trace of certain beef substances poisonous to man were removed...
...LADY IN THE LAKE-Raymond Chandler-Knopf ($2). Mr. Marlowe, forthright and uninhibited California shamus (private detective), is hired to trace the missing wife of a perfume manufacturer, encounters three murders, trades punches with the police, and finally drives a tragic and cunningly concealed killer to his death. An astringent, hardbitten, expertly constructed and convincingly characterized story of the just-tough-enough school...
...some great smelling going on in Cambridge, Mass. It has to do, among other things, with spices. One of the most difficult things to reproduce in the laboratory is a spice. A natural spice is an extremely subtle blend of many ingredients, and the absence of even a trace of a key ingredient may make a big difference in odor and taste. Therefore, attempts to find out how to synthesize spices by chemical analysis have not been successful. But an inventive Cambridge chemist named Ernest Charlton Crocker has just produced three synthetic spices very close to the real thing-nutmeg...
Acuff, son of an oldtime fiddler, was a second-string radio singer a few years ago, when Columbia Recording Corp., trying to trace an old English ballad, The Great Speckled Bird, found that Acuff knew it and hundreds more. Columbia signed him up. Since then, he has made four motion pictures (two still unreleased) and barrowfuls of money. Recently he put down $25,000 cash for an old mansion on Nashville's fashionable Hillsboro Road...