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...provide more or less the same kind of music at 35?, Variety records by Frank Marks will soon be available. Long an arranger for radio bands. Mr. Marks, too, will make eccentric, narrative dance tunes under such .titles as Merry Widow on a Spree, Dizzy Debutante, Lullaby to a Lamp Post, Ode to an Old Coat Sleeve, Talking Turkey to a Greek. Also planned is a three-part suite concerned with Edward VIII's love for Mrs. Simpson called Canterbury Tales...
...emptied the streets; swept flesh before it; and coming smack into a dust cart standing outside the Army and Navy Stores, scattered along the pavement a litter of old envelopes; twists of hair; papers already blood smeared, yellow smeared, smudged with print and sent them scudding to plaster legs, lamp posts, pillar boxes, and fold themselves frantically against area railings." It takes more than graceful, ingenious or suggestively beautiful writing to earn an author the name of "great." As in a cosmic Customs Bureau, everything must be declared, even ideas. And Virginia Woolf's ideas are hard to declare...
...LAMP ON THE PLAINS-Paul Morgan -Harper...
...months' illness; in Swampscott, Mass. A precocious British immigrant who built an electric friction generator out of a wine bottle before he entered high school, Elihu Thomson invented electric welding, the standard three-phase alternating current generator, the centrifugal cream separator, the common watt meter, the street arc lamp; built the first electric locomotive for Baltimore & Ohio Railroad...
...apprehended by the historical method. Such study can counteract the isolating effects of scientific or philosophical concentration. The laboratory concentrator may gain the scientific ideal of truth, but the garish light of day, outside of the walls of Mallinckrodt, may color anew the values he has learned by lamp-light. And philosophy, as it is taught at Harvard, cannot even do that, but produces an intellectual dry rot, crumbling when touched...