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...stockmarket, in the face of fat earnings and general prosperity, last week drifted down to a new low for the year, traders began to wonder just what Wall Street would consider encouraging news to investors. In midweek they found out. President Truman's speech to Congress, which seemed to promise a baby armament boom, started stocks moving up. At the same time, the prospects for earlier passage of ERP promised a boost to sagging exports; and the hope that the income-tax cut could probably be passed even over a presidential veto promised to help business all along...
...midweek, the U.S. jazzbos - Satchmo, Stewart and Milton ("Mezz") Mezzrow - had won the wildest ovations. By comparison, the polite jazz of the Swiss, the Belgians (who went in for bebop) and the British got only polite applause. But the festival's local wonder was an un known young (24) French clarinetist named Claude Luter. When Claude blew out Canal Street Blues and High Society and one of his own called Abouche, sentimental Drummer Baby Dodds (whose late brother Johnny played clarinet with King Oliver) said tearfully: "That kid is terrific. I'd almost think Johnny was playing...
...midweek the pressure was so great that the government had to do something. Finance Minister Douglas Abbott announced the remedy: a partial return of price controls. There would be price ceilings on meats, to be fixed in a week or two; controls on butter, to peg it around 73? a lb.; controls on certain types of fertilizers and a rollback of the price of chemical ingredients; extension of the government's price-control powers for another year. The government might even import butter from New Zealand. Rent controls would continue...
...access to world news through British newspapers is necessarily small. The penny press prints four pages a day, the tabloids eight; Fleet Street's 15 dailies can be tucked under the arm more easily than a midweek copy of the hefty New York Times. Rather than drop pages, some editors, like Robert Barrington-Ward of the London Times, have chosen to save newsprint by dropping readers...
Rutgers Targum editor William Mackenzie and cheerleader Douglas Campbell took possession of the cannon Thursday afternoon at a Kirkland House rendezvous. They came in answer to a midweek telegram from the thief reading: HAD NOT REALIZED THE CANNON MEANT SO MUCH TO RUTGERS. THE DEED WAS DONE OUT OF A SPIRIT OF PRANKISHESS...