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...slight case of murder to the whole waxing biz. What happened was this: WPB bopped civilian use of shellac*by 70%, and shellac is the big item (15-25%) of each platter. Angle for the stab: shellac comes from India, which seems to be in quite a jam right now. Not only that, but shellac is hot stuff in war stuff over here. Anyway, this means a cut in rug-cutting, and no good news for highbrows, either. Needle-nuts can play their old platters down to a nub for all Donald Nelson cares, Only bugle at the funeral...
...bottom, food is becoming the No.1 problem on the British home front. Last week the London Daily Herald burst out with a "Lick That Platter Clean" campaign. "The time has come," said the Herald, "when we must clean our plates with bread and send nothing back to the kitchen. . . . Jam, marmalade and all preserves must be dropped on to the food and never on to the plate...
Another center of musical interest is the Ken, in Boston, where yesterday the second of a series of weekly jam sessions was held. The crowd was large, the entrance fee fifty-five cents, the drinks not too expensive, and the music excellent when the big names--Max Kaminsky, Al Morgan, and Joe Jones--were at work. The sponsors hope to attract a celebrity of Kaminsky's rank each week, in which case their drawing power around Boston, perhaps the most jazz-conscious city in the country, will be assured...
...ride to the front in a lend-lease U.S. Army scout car, loaded with soldiers and armed with riot guns, and explained that I must not travel at night unarmed: "This is not China. People are unfriendly." An orange glow tinted the sky when we ran into a truck jam and a hubbub of cursing Chinese soldiers. "Six planes incendiarized a town south of the river, and traitors burned the north of the river," an officer explained. In the woods, the tall, straight trees formed pillars in the column of fire, and stood trembling silently for a few moments, then...
What the concert aimed to do was to revivify a form of popular music which had lately become much less popular. In the 1920s, when jazz flourished in Chicago, there used to be great jam sessions in hotspots after closing time. By 1936 hot jazz had weaned a commercially successful but adulterated form of itself: swing. Today, it is commercial swing und the smooth, symphonic arrangements of name bands that make big money and attract jitterbugs...