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...however, that the glorification of a few outstanding colored players promises little yet for the less talented Negro musician. Even the best colored bands, as Basie's experience shows, have difficulty getting jobs, although their musical ability may be far greater than that of the stereotyped white bands which feather their nests with the proceeds of their successful mediocrity. Then too, once they hit the limelight, colored stars, like too many white players, are wont to sacrifice their playing styles to impress the multitude, as Eldridge is doing now. No matter how many Negro players are featured with white bands...
...Madrid last week it was officially reported that Spain had at last concluded an accord with the Vatican and unofficially reported that Generalissimo Francisco Franco had won the right to appoint Spanish bishops (see p. 65). With this feather in its beret, Spain's one party, the Falange Española Tradicionalista, which has fought to make the Spanish Catholic Church, not Roman, but Spanish, next day won an even greater victory: success in the long tug of war between Spain's politicians and soldiers...
Last week birds all over the world had reason to be glad that Mrs. Richard Hooper Pough came home one day in 1939 with a new hat. The hat sported an eagle feather. Husband Pough was mightily vexed. A worker for the Audubon Society, he had hoped that hard-won U. S. laws of 1900, 1918, 1930 would protect eagles and other wild birds from milliners. He soon found that when Paris couturiers feathered ladies' hats, traffic in plumage flourished again as it had 30 or 40 years...
With a cry like the great horned owl, Husband Pough soared into action. He wrote pamphlets, made speeches, got the law on feather merchants and milliners. Last week Manhattan feather merchants, representing 90% of the U. S. industry, agreed to file inventories of their stocks with the New York State Conservation Department, dispose of their wild bird plumage within six years or forfeit it. They will give up all eagle, heron, bird of paradise plumes at once...
...until the whites brought hatchets from Europe did the Indians begin making tomahawks. When the whites began selling horses to the Plains Indians, they became nomadic, gave up solid wood and mud architecture and fragile pottery for easily portable tepees, skin and feather ornaments. When Spaniards introduced sheep to the Southwest, the Navahos and Pueblos learned to weave woolen blankets. When, later, tourists demanded rugs, the Navahos, who had never used rugs in their lives, began making them by the thousand...