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...Harry James today is superficial music, fit only for mass consumption and crowd pleasing. There is none of the taste, imagination, and sincerity that makes jazz worthwhile listening to; there are only the externals. It this column concerns itself with such music, except as a bad example, then the Bookshelf department might as well start reviewing Faith Baldwin, and the editorials be copied from Bill Cunningham...
...Harry James today is superficial music, fit only for mass consumption and crowd pleasing. There is none of the taste, imagination, and sincerity that makes jazz worthwhile listening to; there are only the externals. If this column concerns itself with such music, except as a bad example, then the Bookshelf department might as well start reviewing Faith Baldwin, and the editorials be copied from Bill Cunningham...
Suppressed in France and also in Germany lest it endanger the Franco-German relations of 1933, the Miraculous Victory of Emperor Ulrich collected dust on Poet Thomasset's bookshelf while its author continued to dream and prune his vines. At the time of the Austrian Anschluss he hoisted a swastika over his chateau, greeted his neighbors with the only German words he had ever learned: "Heil Hitler...
...twelve-volume, 6,000-page bookshelf comprises all the knowledge that SEC has been able to gather about investment trusts in four years of study. It was assembled and mentally digested by Republican SECommissioner Robert E. Healy-onetime muckraker for the Federal Trade Commission-with the aid of 45 research workers, lawyers and statisticians. The bill which embodies their conclusions was drafted by SEC Attorney David Schenker, a 40-year-old, smart, cigar-masticating, witness-softening lawyer...
...Bookshelf herewith offers an extremely sketchy and tentative list of suggestions for Christmas reading and Christmas giving. Most of the books have appeared in the last year; prices are not given. The advertisements and the booksellers will gladly supply them the booksellers will gladly supply them...