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...music trade ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is a set of initials to be reckoned with. ASCAP holds the performing rights to most copyright music, collects blanket fees from radio networks and stations, doles out prorated royalties to ASCAP members. ASCAP collects in other ways that few people suspect. For example, Yankee Doodle and Dixie, as usually performed by orchestras, pay ASCAP fees. Reason: although the tunes themselves are in the public domain, the rights to arrangements of them are held by ASCAP for the arrangers. Most orchestras find it simpler to use an existing arrangement than...
...automobile, began a triumphal journey to the Chancellery as crowds cheered and wept themselves into hysteria. On either side swastika banners covered the building fronts, garlands of flowers hung across the street on golden cords, bands thundered out continuously his favorite Badenweiler March. The pavement beneath was a multicolored blanket of flowers strewn by white-bloused Hitler Maidens. Overhead the sun shone bright. It was a happy...
...were warned not to park in country lanes lest they be shot as suspicious characters. Plans were rushed to evacuate 20,000 children to North America and all interned aliens, lest they be released to help the invaders. With the first wholesale loads of German bombs, a heavy new blanket of censorship fell upon the land. Until it is over, few will know the true extent of carnage in the Battle of Britain...
...under floodlights at the home plate of a Houston ball park, about his registering at three St. Louis hotels at one time so that he could flop when he liked. On sizzling hot days he would build a bonfire in front of the Cardinal dugout, wrap himself in a blanket, do an Indian war dance. One night, out of ennui in a Philadelphia hotel, he and two teammates, dressed in painters' overalls, dragged ladders and paint cans into a crowded ban quet hall, began to redecorate the walls...
...note: The Crimson did not give blanket support to the candidacy of Robert A. Taft, or condemn in any way the social aims of the New Deal. The statement that the New Deal must be scrapped because of the dangers of its foreign policy was not intended, though the implication was mistakenly made. The purpose of the editorial was to express the hope that issues of foreign policy will be clearly drawn in the coming campaign...