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Before its Harlem junket, last week's congress had its fill of erudition. The musicologists, whose line is musical research as opposed to musical performance, heard such typical papers as The So-Called Babylonian Notation, Mozart's Handwriting and the Creative Process, The Evolution of Javanese Tone-Systems. Delegates from France and Germany were kept away by the war, and the musicologists soberly discussed probable hindrance of their work elsewhere, applauded a message from French Novelist-Musician Romain Rolland: "In the field of art, there is not . . . any rivalry among nations. The only combat worthy...
...Illustrated had been out just five days when it found a rival: War Pictorial. Published by Bernard Jones Publications, Ltd. (whose Radio Pictorial and Football Forecast folded when war began), the Pictorial was guaranteeing a circulation of 200,000. It had 32 pages too, all gravure, with shots of the Westwall, the British Navy, the Royal Family, but no pictures...
Last week U. S. publishers were reassured. The Newsprint Association of Canada announced that its mills could meet increasing demands, were pledged to abstain from profiteering. A few days later mighty International Paper Co., whose price usually guides the market, said that until next spring newsprint would continue to sell...
...Nineties song-&-dance man who wrote I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now and 500 other whilom favorites, is 72. His shuffle-off-to-Buff alo is not what it used to be, but he can still plug a song. Last Christmas, parsimonious Showman Billy Rose, whose cabaret career is paved with old music-hall favorites hired for a song, hired old Joe to sing his old songs at Manhattan's rhinestony Diamond Horseshoe. For Joe Howard, the job was a welcome hitch along his comeback trail-which last week looked promising indeed...
Advantages of Japan against her new competitor are: 1) her supply-source is prodigious-she has big (two or three feet across), murderous-looking king crabs, each of whose arms provides two cans of crab steak, 2) her crabs do not require treatment to prevent discoloration...