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...play. Himself a former pianist, trumpet, trombone and tuba player, he chooses his performers with a canny ear, is well able to and does give them pointers on how to toot their own horns. He spends all his evenings In night clubs, cabarets, bars, movies, musical shows, on the lookout for new bands and new tunes. His admiring associates think he can pick a hit more unerringly than any other man in the business...
...stockmarket prices hit an all-time high, was a scorcher from Nebraska to Maine. On the streets you could see a few back less dresses and bare legs, practically no tinted nails. Bobs were shingled in back, banged on brows, swept on cheeks. A man named Garnet Carter of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., got on a train for Miami, where he was to install the first Miniature Golf Course in Florida. Liberal weeklies were referring to John L. Lewis as an autocratic reactionary of Labor. Singin' in the Rain was a popular tune. The average price of a radio...
...From the lookout came a new alarm: Two more enemy sighted. Light cruiser. Heavy cruiser. Starboard abeam...
Suddenly from the lookout came a message : Enemy light cruiser sighted. Convoy. Off the starboard...
Alarm gongs clanged violently from lookout to keelson; bugles sounded to-your-stations. On the bridge the young officers put on their earphones and checked with the fire-control room and plotters. Observers focused their binoculars. The T-shaped range finders swung in the sleepy calisthenics of limbering and checking. In the control tower the plotters laid out their instruments-parallel, slide, caliper...