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...Swing will die within the next six months," said Paul Whiteman in 1934. Since then, not only has it made the phonograph record industry worth a small mint, but it has shown nightclub owners and theatre operators that life is something besides a bowl of red ink. The San Francisco Fair wasn't doing too well until Benny Goodman and cohorts arrived on the scene. And we doubt very much that Mr. Whalen has been booking swing bands for the New York Fair because he likes their brand of "jump" music...
...Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence's trustees have now released his official Letters, and his friends-and-biog-raphers, Robert Graves and Liddell Hart, have each published the letters T. E. wrote to them. Only remains Lawrence's account of his years in the R. A. F., The Mint (TIME, Dec. 14, 1936), which will not be published till 1950. The sum of all this testimony does not change the verdict on Lawrence that his generation has already brought in; but it does add some slightly distorting, some slightly coarsening, some slightly endearing details...
...world-weary alumni were sipping their cool mint juleps in the Stork Club the other day, trying to forget an earth where every conceivable mystery is suspected of undermining civilization, and is therefore being duly investigated by Dies et al. Suddenly they recognized the presence of a sordid and stark reality. In the conversation of two of the season's buds at the next table, they learned of an all-pervading influence of another color...
Before each issue is read it is a mint of worthwhile information, but what in the world good are several hundred copies in my basement ? I can give them away ... or better, solicit TIME'S help, among its readers, for a better, more profitable method of disposition. Is there some rich, retired seaman, or world-traveler, who would like an index of all these books, willing to pay for them, ship them to some far away place...
...couple of Houdinis!"' ejaculated Peter J. Haggerty, superintendent of a mint now proven pregnable...