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...seasons ago, Columbia Concerts Corp., which shares with NBC Artists Service a virtual monopoly on U. S. concert bookings, tried to sell the people of Crawfordsville a concert course from which their own orchestra was omitted. Crawfordsville would not hear of it. So, in order to sell the town such artists as Tenor Charles Hackett and Soprano Hilda Burke, Columbia Concerts Corp. became sponsor of the Symphony's season...
After the first half of the lecture, Mallinckrodt MB9 became a virtual battle-field with every type of powder from Roger Bacon's original sulphur, saltpeter, and charcoal formula to the present high-explosive, gun-cotton, in prominent display and usage...
Harlem. To nightlifers, Harlem, the Negro metropolis, is a glittering island of creepjoints, honky-tonks, jive halls. But for its 245,000 inhabitants, jammed into some 230 narrow city blocks, Harlem is a virtual pesthole. The t.b. mortality rate in Harlem is ten times higher than the rate in more prosperous sections of New York City. It is not uncommon for Harlem doctors to be stricken. Confined to a tuberculosis sanatorium at present is brilliant, contentious Skull Surgeon Louis Tompkins Wright, former surgical director of Harlem Hospital, considered by many the outstanding Negro physician...
...weak eyes, and thanks to "the subtle pressure of what was expected of him," forced them to a point of virtual blindness, the end of any academic hopes. Douglas wanted to be an architect; and after a good deal of trouble he shamed his Uncle Ernest into financing his studies. He fell in love with a girl who, as a child, had found it expedient to call her artist father Painter-Man, her mother The House-Mouse. He and the girl had much to hate in common. He was so far cut loose from his family that while his mother...
...There's still bread in Russia and as long as there is bread there is no famine. My experience in Russia goes back to periods of relative plenty and virtual famine, and in my opinion the food supply when I left Moscow was worse than at any time since the famine of 1933. Most of the people standing in these queues are women-housewives or servants or older members of a family. But it's always been remarked in Russia that the 'women say what the men think.' And during the periods this winter when...