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Well, the summer season's over, and taken all in all it was a good season. More people than ever before flocked to the musical attractions at the Hollywood Bowl, the Philadelphia Robin Hood Dell, the Lewisohn Stadium and the Berkshire Festival, making it obvious to all eyes that the Americans are fast becoming the most music-loving and music-conscoius public in the world, if they haven't become so already...
...Dodge Truck plant on Detroit's Mound Road. Of the 79,000 trucks which the Army is getting from Chrysler, 55,000 have been delivered. All four-wheel drives, they range from half-ton command cars (two-seaters with a canvas top and a snub-nose hood) to one-and-a-half-ton "cargo motor transports" (plain, everyday small-size trucks). For the benefit of the visitors barrel-bellied "Frenchy" Raes, chief test driver for Dodge, gave one of the little command cars and a truck the works. Frenchy's working outfit was a white shirt...
Last week Benny Goodman, before departing for Chicago, attracted 10,000 people to Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell for the concert José Iturbí refused to conduct (TIME, July 7). Clarinetist Goodman not only rippled through the Mozart concerto, with Edwin McArthur conducting, but he waved a stick-a pencil-over the Philadelphia Orchestra in the première of a Tango by Stravinsky. Drawled Benny later: "I felt kinda funny...
...Iturbi, turbulent-tempered Spanish conductor-pianist, got on his high horse last week with one angry bound. Reason: he was slated to conduct a program (July 10) at Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell, on which Swingster Benny Goodman was scheduled to play one of his specialties, the Mozart clarinet concerto. From California, Conductor Iturbi telephoned Philadelphia: "[Goodman] is a jazz-band leader. It would be beneath my dignity to conduct for him." (Iturbi has accepted dignified fees for appearing with Bing Crosby on the radio, playing piano accompaniment for Bob Burns' bazooka.) Drawled Benny Goodman: "Well...
...sinking by the Royal Navy of the Nazi Bismarck, which had just sunk the British Hood, all but one of these things were true...