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...phonograph records." So said Managing Director Irving Mills of Master Records, Inc. (TIME, March 22) last week as he totted up the newest U. S. record company's first week's business. As a house policy, accent on what is known in show business as the "freak draw" is novel in the recording industry. As applied to Mills's Master (75?) and Variety (35?) disks, however, it had apparently worked.* Anticipating initial sales of 40,000 records, the company was swamped with orders...
Different solutions to the unexplainable freak of nature have been offered. Some say the valuable cargo was dropped to the Music Room prided above all else by the Bell-boys. Still others contend that Lampy is celebrating the appearance of a "humorous" joke in their publication...
Last month the motor truck in which 739-lb. "Happy Jack" Eckert lived, traveled and displayed himself as a freak of nature collided with a freight truck at Flomaton, Ala. Ten men succeeded in carrying Happy Jack into a hospital and placing him on two beds lashed together...
...last week the fat freak's body was placed in a 500-lb. cypress coffin, hauled to Mobile and buried by lodge brothers- Elks and Woodmen of the World...
...antiquated collection of The Museum of Comparative Zoology has been added an extraordinary freak commonly known as the long-spined Dimetrodon...