Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fred Lundy's 1941 Nash sedan was found on a highway a mile up the canyon. On the front seat was his briefcase. In it were $350 in cash and a note: "If and when I die, please ship my body to Roscoe, Ill. . . . Thank you." Signed: Fred Lundy. At week's end police were still looking for Fred...
...bearded Allan D. Dowling, 43, who makes his money in real estate and spends some of it publishing his own avant-garde poems, had sent the Review a mash note. He thought it was the finest thing since the dear dead Dial, he said, and he offered to stake it to enough cash to make the Review in fact what John Dos Passos had called it: "The best literary magazine in America." Longtime Co-Editors William Phillips and Philip Rahv told Angel Dowling that they thought the job would take at least $50,000 a year...
...Grand Symphony had been played often during Berlioz' life, and Richard Wagner, notably stingy with praise for his contemporaries, had called it great and noble from first note to last. Said he: "This symphony will live as long as there is a nation that calls itself France." But after Berlioz' death in 1869, his symphony for band was largely neglected. Richard Franko Goldman, son and heir-apparent of famed Bandmaster Edwin Franko Goldman (now 69) had come across it in the scarce diggings of classical band literature, adapted its score for the 56 instruments in the Goldman Band...
Trouble for the Army. The Russian-printed marks were distinguishable by a dash in front of the serial number. The Army took no note of it. It cashed in unlimited quantities of invasion marks till November 1945 when it limited the amount convertible to dollars to the amount of the soldiers' pay. In September 1946 it stopped converting marks entirely. By then the Army had on hand $250 million in invasion marks more than it had issued. What was worse, it had no appropriations to cover what it had put out. As far as the U.S. now knows...
...picture strikes one very queer note: its infatuation with breadwinning as the real measure of stability and wholesome family life. When Scott gets good & sore at his wife, he just can't give a hoot for moneymaking, and that neglect is represented as close to the ultimate catastrophe. But he recovers. Within a few hours after she has killed a man in her parlor, and is still suffering from shock, he leaves her, with her entire approval, for more important matters at The Office...