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Robert Goffin's bounding enthusiasm has found many an outlet. Besides being a leading criminal lawyer of Brussels (until the Nazi invasion), he has authored books on legal finance, spies, gastronomy, rats, spiders, eels. He collaborated on a play with Maurice Maeterlinck. Jazz, at first his passionate hobby, is now his profession. For him there is only one worth-while kind: hot, improvised jazz. "You must hear Lombardo," he says, "to have a notion of what not to do in jazz...
...kick in the rear-as it might be a farmer slapping an old horse. They knew that a chapter in their lives was over. Some current of emotion-half-abashed, selfconscious, a sentiment that seemed a little ridiculous when dedicated to inanimate machinery-moved through the crowd, finding its outlet in the horseplay, the offhand talk, the what-the-hells with which American workmen cover up what they feel...
...Angeles a CBS program director shot into the office of a vice president one morning with a new idea. A few nights later CBS's local outlet, KNX, announced at 1:15 a.m. that instead of signing off it was inaugurating a regular four-hour program lasting to 5 a.m. for the benefit of "swing shifters" in local war industries. Knocking off work and dining after midnight, accustomed to stay up until at least 6 a.m., these men and their families now may listen to a full "evening" of radio, including, by transcription, some of CBS's best...
...afternoon wore on the motor-makers began to sweat: they had thrown their overcoats on a window ledge, accidentally covered up a ventilating outlet. As the delegates melted in the heat, the nation's hope for immediate conversion melted...
...stations, 14 were in cities "adequately served by less than four full-time stations," i.e., less than enough to allow CBS, NBC Red, NBC Blue and Mutual one outlet apiece. All 14 were NBC affiliates having the usual five-year contracts with NBC-contracts giving NBC an option on their best hours on 28 days' notice. FCC's new regulations modified this, requiring 56 days' notice. But FCC's regulations were not yet in force...