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...Alamo (Ray Noble; Columbia). Post-World War I classic played by Britain's No. 1 dance band in its slickest and most satisfying pre-War II style...
Later on, among the wide-open delights of pre-war Beale Street, came Mister Crump and Memphis Blues. He tells the familiar story with vivid authority, sorely tilts against "Mr. X-" and "Mr. Z-who gypped him out of the copyright to Memphis Blues...
From a steamer in Manhattan harbor last week debarked a refugee French painter with his wife and two infant sons. He was André Masson, a short, red-faced surrealist whose wireworky portraits of dismembered fish and ectoplasmic corpses had won him a reputation in pre-war France as one of modern art's finest flowers. Said he: "It is now just about a full year that I have been traveling. I am a curiosity even to myself."; Many of Surrealist Masson's fellow artists were still in Europe, either could not or would not leave...
...defense program still has no central economic authority charged with gearing U.S. production to the armament effort. Hence many a specific question in the agents' minds went unanswered. Already their buying policies have changed from a pre-war hand-to-mouth basis to forward buying for nine months hence or more. Chief danger, in a situation where only a spark might set off an inflationary explosion, was that industry might never be told the answers, would have to buy everything in sight to protect itself...
Even if the war lasts a long time, the airlines expect to stay in business, if the example of other countries means anything. German airlines are operating at 110% of pre-war schedules; England is maintaining 90% of its services; Canada's airways set new records monthly; even Italy still flies to South America...