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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notes between the notes: Most of the music stores in town (Briggs included) have finally gotten sheet copies of the Bob Zurke and Jesse Stacy piano solos. While they're not too easy to read, they're worth the try . . . To see just how much influence Louis Armstrong did exert on jazz, catch the opening bars in Erskine Hawkins' "Swing Out," his theme song . . . Art Tatum's piano on "Tea For Two" (Decca) while not real swing, is interesting enough technically to make listening...
Thus the strike had set up a perfect laboratory in which to test the most cherished and vital belief of all U. S. newspaper publishers: that local business cannot get along without them. Alarming result: it has gotten along quite well. In December, for instance, the bigger stores reported business up 6% over 1937; in January and February it was down 7% to 9% from 1938, about the same as in big-advertising New York City. At the same time merchants have saved up to 50% on their promotion and advertising budgets...
Winter and Perry are advocating the construction of a rink in front of Hollis Hall where water could be easily gotten from the pump. Skating not only for pleasure, they were also demonstrating the possibilities of their idea...
...Index reached its high point in February, five months before the F.R.B. Index of Industrial Production and seven months before stock prices reached their last dizzy peak. The TIMEline did indeed give the "first evidence" in that year of high and misguided hopes-but speculators, who might well have gotten out of the market after the TIMEline's sharp drop in April, would have missed the 30 to 40 point rise that took place subsequently. Chart readers would have noted that the TIMEline in September 1929, before the market crash, broke through its previous bottom (made in August...
...habit of uncritical adulation which began with the Frank Lloyd Wright piece [TIME. Jan. 17] seems to have gotten out of hand in your current blurb on Corcoran & Cohen. Please remember that what your customers expect from you is salt, with maybe a dash of vinegar: but never oil and never sugar...