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Jazz, blowsiest of the arts, has been disgracefully lax about keeping her barrelhouse in order. The master recordings of hundreds of notable numbers, played by inspired but informal groups of musicians in obscure studios, have been lost or destroyed. Copies of records made in Swing's golden age, the 19203, by bands like the Wolverines, Friars Society Orchestra and New Orleans Rhythm Kings, are therefore as rare as Gutenbergs and, to lovers of America's native music, as valuable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hot Society | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...H.A.A. has never been lax in bidding for the backing of the sports-minded student. Fairness in relationships between officers and players forms the characteristic par excellence of Harvard sports. The powers that be have willingly opened the doors of administration to all who wanted to be student managers. But the Quincy Street bureaucracy has never fully realized the importance of giving the ordinary student a share in Harvard athletics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL FOR ATHLETICS | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Primary among the criticisms of present conditions is that an over-lax system of admissions results in wholesale slashing of the enrollment after the first year. At present many men drift into law-school upon graduation without definite purpose. They continue to drift through the first year and are dropped immediately following their final examinations. Such a system clogs the normal functions of a post-graduate academy and is obviously wrong. Stiffer entrance requirements, such as are in force at Yale, would eliminate the idle and the unfit, and would increase the effectiveness of both faculty and student body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLACE AND THE MAN | 1/12/1937 | See Source »

Meantime in Duquesne, another case of lax guardianship presented itself to the Pennsylvania Attorney General's attention. Martin Sullivan, a 70-year-old Duquesne policeman who rouged his cheeks, penciled his eyebrows, dyed his hair and capped a bald spot with a toupee held on by a string under his chin, always liked to have little girls accompany him on his beat, carrying his nightstick. Four years ago he married one of them, aged 15. She lately deserted him. Last week in Duquesne he was taken to court on a charge of having raped another girl, aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pennsylvania Escapes | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...budget, he declared that any money used for that purpose should properly come out of relief funds. Congressional pain at the veto was considerably alleviated when a few days later he allocated $30,000,000 from relief funds for crop loans. Further to avoid charges of lax spending, the President privately passed word to his friends, Senator Wagner who has a $200,000,000 housing project and Senator Norris who has a $100,000,000 yearly electric power plan, that their money demands must be reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Electoral Equinox | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

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