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Last week Caesar Petrillo, whose power over U.S. musicians extends from Toscanini to Harry James, decided that it was time to call a halt on the progress of Edison's handiwork. He ordered the 216,000 members of his American Federation of Musicians to stop making all recordings and radio transcriptions after Dec. 31. He was playing a familiar tune. He had once cracked: "What do I care about science; my boys gotta eat." But this time Caesar Petrillo brought his tune to a crashing crescendo. Said he: "We stop making recordings once and for all-period...
Queen Mary gave a matronly shove to a campaign to export ladies' handiwork (and thus import U.S. dollars) by contributing six flowery chair-covers which she had embroidered herself...
...methodically searched all compartments and pulled out 17 Moslems, whom they beheaded on the platform. Most amazing of all was the look of bland satisfaction on the faces of these young Sikh men, their hands dripping blood, their clothes smeared with blood, as they stood and grinned at their handiwork while the train finally pulled out. The only Moslems who escaped on this trip were two who were hidden by two British officers under their baggage...
...only excitement in Owosso was when the porch swing fell down. Tom Dewey himself had made the swing in a manual training class 30 years ago. It was high-backed, narrow and uncomfortable, but Mrs. Dewey was proud of her son's handiwork and she hung it on the front porch of the white clapboard house on Oliver Street. She made a pad for it, and whenever it came apart, she patched it up with wire. One afternoon last week the wire gave way. Down in a heap went 165-Ib. Tom Dewey, 210-lb. National Committeeman Arthur...
Sparks & Spaghetti. Archeologists had rounded up 75,000 specimens of Eskimo handiwork for the university, pieced together exhibits of prehistoric monsters. Campus scientists had collected important data for the Government on magnetism and the upper atmosphere, incidentally scotched an old sourdough's tale that the flashing northern lights set off sparks in their whiskers...