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Last September, Glickman came across the record in his files. Says Lange: "It sounded like something I had never heard before. I was floored. But I knew that right there we had a hot hit." With its fast clippity-clop rhythm (actually a good deal faster than a burro's), it sounded like a poor man's Riders in the Sky. And with the U.S. hungry for what the trade calls "oat" or "popcorn" songs, Lange was right about the hot hit. After Vaughn Monroe, Frankie Laine, Bing Crosby, et. al. had taken a ride on it, Mule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Clippity-Clop | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...than a year, Canadians have been working patiently and getting nowhere trying to iron out the problem with the U.S. State Department (and with U.S. Air Force brass who saw no reason for either generosity or haste). With the grievance aired in public, U.S. response might come a little faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Rub | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Director Rathbone seemed to be getting the mass appreciation. At week's end, visitors were packing into his museum at a faster rate than at any time since last winter, when 228,000 came to see the traveling exhibit of Berlin art masterpieces. Rathbone's exhibit was also getting huzzas from other museum men. Said a visiting expert from Louisiana: "It should be shown in every city on the Mississippi River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Century of the River | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...million to $19.7 million (a gain of nearly 50% for the Sept. 30 quarter). International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson turned in a $24.7 million net for the nine months, up 16%, while most of his rivals felt declines. But many other giants were being nipped by faster-moving competitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full of Steam | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...started to make woolen clothes, many thousands of years ago, some moths began to change their feeding habits. With a good deal of difficulty, says Moncrieff, they learned to digest wool, have not yet completely adapted themselves to their unnatural diet. Researchers have proved that moth larvae grow faster when fed on fish meal or casein, and that unless they get vitamin B they never reach maturity. Vitamin B, plentiful in dirty clothes, is what a moth is after when he chews up a gravy spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Indigestible Wool | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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