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James C. Petrille has every right to be concerned about the unhealthy economic state of American musicians as a group. The industry is acutely overcrowded, a condition for which one cure would be an application of the age old rule of the survival of the fittest. But Petrilo's is a different prognosis, although it involves almost as old a principle, namely that technological progress constitutes a social menace. The new record ban, according to his announcement, is not just a means of obtaining for musicians a bigger share of the $210,000,000 annual income from recordings...
Limning, as the Elizabethans called it, was done with opaque watercolor on vellum using fine brushes called pencils. In his Art of Limning, Hilliard directed: "The first and chiefest precept which I give is cleanliness, and therefore fittest for gentlemen, that the practicer of limning be precisely pure and cleanly in all his doings . . . take heed of the dandruff of the head shedding from the hair, and of speaking over your work for sparkling, for the least sparkling of spittle will never be helped if it light in the face or any part of the naked...
...Mattie Lou spelled down 34 other contestants, fittest survivors of 6,000,000 U.S. youngsters. Only nine of the finalists were boys, and not one finished in the money...
...years hot debate has been raging between the advocates of a stone monument and proponents of a "living memorial" that will further war aims, with holders of every position proffering excellent reasons why his suggestion is the fittest and the most practical. But the University, in the midst of a slow alumni drive to endow the Lamont Library, may look with favor on a simple dedication that can be realized within a very few years...
Survival of the Fittest. This arrangement of the succession fits all known factors. Molotov has long been Stalin's chief administrative assistant, and with Beria in the next top post, the new Government can hope for the full support of the secret police. As for the Army, the other force on which the Kremlin has to reckon, the new marshals like Zhukov, who might have Bonapartist ambitions, are suspect. Voroshilov and Budenny, as old party warhorses, are politically much more reliable...