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...recently Decca, which helped revive the infirm phonograph record market in 1933 with its low-priced discs, has been running a poor third in the re-pressing race. This has been due to the company's emphasis on novelties like Joe Daniels's Hot Shots and popular favorites like Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, at the expense of weaker selling jazz. Then too, Decca's comparative youth prevented it from recording Beiderbecke, Armstrong, Bessic Smith and others who were in their prime before the New Deal. I hold no brief for pre-Repeal jazz. It's like pre-Repeal...
...wheezy sleep of the bronchial cases." Writer Calder advanced a program of shelter-life improvement and said: "The War Office must see this not only as a social measure but as a first-class military issue." He called for immediate evacuation from London of women, children, aged & infirm; for reform of shelter life to include better sanitary facilities, daily inspection by medical officers and cleansing by trained squads, more light and warmth, bunks arranged to keep sleepers' heads apart...
...days later, Police Chief C. Norbert Wade reported with a straight face to the Township Committee. Patrolman Pierman, said the chief, had strayed from duty. The woman he had in his car while parked in a quiet spot was one who "neither required information, nor was aged, infirm, blind, suddenly taken ill, injured, or otherwise temporarily unable to care for herself." Moreover, he had made a broadcast "not in the line of duty or relating to public, police or safety matters." Patrolman Pierman opened himself altogether to five official charges when he forgot to turn off the switch...
...whether or not the philosophy embodied in paintings such as Fiene's is of sound or infirm quality is not, to my mind, an important point. What does deserve attention, however, is the fact that the field of art is coming into its own in relation to people, their daily lives, and their problems. The day of an inactive, passive, and purely patrician art is rapidly coming to a close...
Wise Tomorrow's, opening was a printed enclosure: "Miss Barrett's limp is due to a sprained ankle." Long before 11 o'clock the play had developed other limps much more pronounced than Miss Barrett's and not so easily explained away. With an infirm grip on the unlovely figure of Lesbianism, novice British Playwright Powys had dragged it through three bumpy acts, upsetting the lives of an abashed cast and sending Manhattan first-nighters out into the October air looking gloomy and underfed...