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...chief motive in seeing the President was to tell [him] that food commodity prices were too high, and that he should ask the special session of Congress to fix a price on wheat based on parity. I told him that, if this were not done . . . wheat could be priceless before another crop was delivered to market. I explained the fact to him and to reporters . . . that I knew only one neutral man in the U.S., and he is Uncle Sam. The Government is the only source of control which can establish a price fair to me, as a producer...
...accused of being a collaborationist because he had sold Hermann Göring a priceless Vermeer. Van Meegeren pleaded guilty to forging the picture: instead of trafficking with the enemy, he had tricked him. And Göring, had been only one of his victims : Van Meegeren confessed that six "Vermeers" and several "Pieter de Hoochs" lining the Palace of Justice walls were really the work of his hand. Last week Forger Van Meegeren was sentenced to a year in jail...
...same time that Kennedy was blowing his trumpet and cornet in Cambridge, Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke were in the national spotlight on these instruments respectively. Both are among the cornerstones of Kennedy's record collection, which also includes nearly every now priceless record Bing Crosby made before he started to groan and ceased to sing with Paul Whiteman and the Rhythm Boys...
...Such priceless evidence of contemporary scholarship is unfortunately very costly, according to Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf. Replacing course books rendered illegible by doodlers runs into hundreds of dollars per annum. A Library Council rule passed in 1937 assesses anyone who marks books for the full price of the volume, but it has proved difficult to enforce...
...dusky St. Louis song-&-dance woman (Josephine Baker) had ruled the jungle of the Folies Bergère clad only in several bananas" [TIME, June 16]. This is a wonderful typographical error (bandanas), priceless...