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...Lombardo. Bob Wills's music is called "folk" in the trade for want of a better name; there's a lot of fig in the folk. Wills is more a backwoods Guy Lombardo than a balladeer like Burl Ives. His trick is to bring ranch-house music nearer to the city. Says he: "Please don't anybody confuse us with none of them hillbilly outfits...
...York and all strangers visiting New York would flock to see [the book] . . . descriptions of it would appear in all languages & in all newspapers in the world. . . . Find out ... if His Holiness will accept. ... I think the idea is sound.. . . P.S. No, the gold would cost nearer $3,000, instead of $500. That is all the better...
Snafu. To make all this worse, the housing muddle was no nearer a solution than it had been on V-J day. With Government controls removed, the bulk of available labor and materials were going into industrial building. Only 37,000 houses had even been started; many had not got beyond the foundations...
...original lie detector measured the subject's respiration and blood pressure. These stayed at normal levels while the suspect was answering harmless preliminary questions. But when the questions struck nearer home, the emotional effort of lying made the heart pound harder, the breathing irregular. The machine marked such telltale reactions on a moving strip of paper...
...hesitate to predict a revolution or revolt so far in advance, but all evidence certainly points to the same alarming conclusion. The reasons are partly historic and partly aggravated by the present situation (the use of Indian troops in Java, for one thing). Certainly the tinderbox has been moved nearer the match by the Indians' frustration at the fact that Labor is not for them a new hope but is following the oldtime India policy. We are firmly convinced that great trouble is in the making and further feel it highly significant-1) that the British are keeping such...