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...within the last two years the Army has assumed a new importance. Now Freshmen flock into the beginning course because they want to learn to be officers, and the Department of Military Science, sensing that it no longer has to attract students with its horses, is waking up. The officer-instructors are handling out "unsatisfactory" grades right and left, and their exams are no longer the snap quizzes of the good old days. Only three cuts per year are allowed before the unwary slugabed finds himself outside the Army with the draft hot on his neck. Written work outside...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Jack Teagarden is currently at the Brunswick. Featured are Jack, brother Charlic (trumpet), and Danny Polo (clarinet), but somehow there's nothing particularly inspiring. Good for dancing, though...Goodman's new outfit will start a flock of one-nighters about Nov. 10. He'll be within driving distance and probably worth going to see. A not-so-wild rumor says Cootie Williams will be with him. Ellington's loss is Goodman's gain, but I can't see Cootie with anyone but the Duke...Record of the week is Special Delivery Stomp by Artie Shaw...
Perennial No. 1 sore point in Japanese-U. S. relations is the scrap-iron trade. But this time the scrap issue was dead. Burying it were a flock of Japanese, Greek and miscellaneous tramp steamers feverishly filling up with their last loads of U. S. scrap before the embargo took effect Oct. 16. At Jacksonville (Fla.). not ordinarily a big scrap port, two Greek tramps loaded about $102,000 of scrap while the town went wild, the city fathers passed an ordinance against such trade...
...Latter-Day Saints in Illinois, Producer Zanuck moves his Mormons across the western plains through a succession of bouts with cold and starvation; plants them by the Great Salt Lake for an arduous, hungry winter, a pitched battle with crickets, a final miraculous victory assisted by a flock of sea gulls which arrives in the nick of time...
Macy's in Syracuse may well serve as an inexpensive guinea pig for Macy's in Manhattan. If successful, it may breed a flock of "Macy's of Middletowns," help bolster Macy's hard-won earnings-3% last year on sales of $130,433,687. It is the foster child and will be the personal care of Macy's untitled new executive, Richard Godfrey Roth, who went to the store last January from Cleveland's Wm. Taylor Son & Co. Small, kinky-haired Retailer Roth will supervise the Syracuse venture from Manhattan...