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...JAMES F. CANNING...
Vienna's Communist press last week told the Viennese how U.S. elections are won. The trick is to capture the unemployed cowboy vote by canning horses for the Marshall Plan...
...French Riviera, so the story goes, a hot-tempered Austrian almost outdid everybody when he won a tournament; openly sneering at the tiny silver trophy that was presented to him, he set it down in midcourt and squashed it flat with a roller. Last week, in Paris, tomboyish Patricia Canning Todd, No. 4 among U.S. women players, did her bit to keep the tradition alive...
...music had changed radically in the half century since brass bands pumped lugubriously before U.S. saloons and Americans fought mosquitoes at park concerts for the sweet sake of culture. Music was now a product to be seized by machinery, to be packaged, distributed and sold in wholesale lots. Canning and transmitting musical effects was a huge and complicated industry in which the artist, the advertiser, the salesman and the inventor fought ceaselessly for expression and profit. Its impact upon the people of the U.S. and the world was tremendous-it had given them both the Beethoven Ninth...
...prompted to follow by reports this week from San Pedro, where the first day's catch was the second highest on record. But the canners of northern California, with some $60,000,000 tied up in factory equipment, are much worse off. A few have turned to vegetable canning. But most of them are just waiting despondently for an end to nature's perverse magic...