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...volatile and afraid of what Washington may do is the copper industry. But last week the copper market enjoyed its busiest day on record, selling 113,106 tons (previous record: 106,101 tons, July 21, 1936). Part of this was due to a price increase. As usual the price booster was Copperman No. 3, Phelps Dodge's Louis S. Cates, who moved the market up ½? a pound to 11½?. Booster Gates has been wrong on his market many times, and no Phelps Dodge price sticks until Coppermen 1 and 2, Anaconda's Cornelius F. Kelley...
Eddie South's band (he of the violin) is causing a sensation at Jiggs' in New York . . . And we hear dirty rumors to the effect Artie Shaw is trying to get his old band back again . . . Harry Newman, impresarlo of the class of 1942 and booster of the King Cole Trio from California will be glad to know that well-merited recognition is finally coming their way as Lionel Hampden used them in a recent Victor recording session. The "Cardinal" will also be interested, as will most of you, in the middle part of the Earl Hines theme, "Deep Forest...
...producers, their rate of production highly responsive to the cartel's price. Newest U. S. mine in commercial production is the Idaho Almaden near Weiser, Idaho, discovered by a sheepherder in 1936, leased and run by Lawrence Kendall Requa, son of Herbert Hoover's late friend and booster, Mark Requa. Vice presidents of Idaho Almaden are Sons Allan and Herbert Hoover Jr. Producing around 500 Ib. of mercury a day, their mine has made money from its start...
Died. Everest George Sewell, 65, mayor of Miami; of heart disease; in Miami. Looking and dressing like a ham actor, he was a Georgia-born booster who built the first store in Miami, launched the city as a winter resort by a $3,000 publicity campaign in 1915; served four terms as mayor. Defeated in 1937, he resumed office last year after the opposition had been recalled because of graft scandal...
Rescind the "rumpled pants," and I'll still be a TIME booster...