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This song, New San Antonio Rose, may baffle or even irritate fastidious rhetoricians, and its tune is strictly golden bantam. Yet last week Decca Records reported that in January alone the song had sold 84,500 discs-sung by the Caruso of the juke boxes, bland Bing Crosby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs from Texas | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

That Saturday night, as the nation's juke boxes ground out The Last Time I Saw Paris, as millions of Americans danced, drank, played bridge, collided in automobiles, sloshed through the East's thickest blizzard in six years or gave thanks that California's record rain had stopped; as the millions who have as yet felt no impact of the war prayed or played; as on any other Saturday night, with the children bathed and in bed and the old folks nodding by the radio, the U. S. went about its usual concerns, while the Senate took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Step in the Dark | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...Look (Joan Merrill; Bluebird). The torch record that is putting nickels into the nation's juke boxes. As a result, choke-making Songstress Merrill is looking toward Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Popular, Mar. 17, 1941 | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...those newfangled telephone attachments. The dancing space is not very large, but it serves its purpose. Every once in a while a good boogie-woogie player drops in out of the cold and throws out a hot bit from the dumpy little piano over in the corner. The juke box has to take a back seat at these times because there are a lot of swing fans who hibernate in the Club. For those who are subject to racket making attacks, though, there is a very efficient sedative in the form of one named Red. When better men are built...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 2/18/1941 | See Source »

Lodged in the university-operated Carolina Inn, the visitors quickly made themselves at home. They went shopping for U. S. clothes and cars, mobbed Chapel Hill's three leading undergraduate "juke joints"-Aggie's, Harry's, The Pines. Most popular class was one in Basic English (850 words), taught by Harvard's Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards, who was lent to North Carolina especially for the occasion. Although the visitors learned rapidly, the campus had some chuckles. At the movies, a South American asked his date whether she had yet been afflicted with "the constipation" (flu). Another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hemisphere High Jinks | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

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