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Brown, bosomy Hazel Scott attained fame by changing Bach's stately counter-point into boogie-woogie at Manhattan's Café Society Uptown. Last week Pianist Scott considerably enhanced her fame and earning power by not changing the stately D.A.R...
...given by the Daughters of the American Revolution. In 1939 Mrs. Roosevelt had quit the D.A.R. because it refused to let Negro Contralto Marian Anderson sing in the Society's Constitution Hall; now the D.A.R. was embroiled in a similar controversy with publicity-seeking Negro Pianist Hazel Scott. But the girls tactfully asked no questions about Mrs. Truman's racial opinions...
...developed for the Army & Navy: 1) an insect "bomb," consisting of a small can which, when opened, releases an "aerosol" gas loaded with an insecticide (such as DDT or quick-killing pyrethrum) that instantly fills a room; 2) a new mosquito repellent, "Formula 6-12," which smells like witch hazel and is reported to be six times as effective as 100% citronella; 3) N.M.R.I. 201, a still more effective repellent just developed by the Navy, said to last eleven hours...
Harry Truman, President for four months, still got a thrill out of great events and his part in them. The bright hazel eyes of the plain man from Missouri raced across and down the yellow page...
...Manhattan's favorite tabloid characters got married last week. The Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 36, wing-collared pastor of Harlem's big Abyssinian Baptist Church and New York's first Negro Congressman, took as a wife (his second) round-eyed, plump Hazel Scott, 25, Bach-to-boogie pianist. Their wedding should have been a tabloid editor's dream - a cast of stars, and a comedy of errors...