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...conclusion, the dance band is today a big business enterprise. Fashions in music, like fashions in clothes change year after year. So the music makers must keep abreast of the times. Years ago we called dance music rag time. A few years later, we called it Jazz. Today it is known as swing, and tomorrow, who knows...
...Eton's boys the war was proving rather a rag. They carried their gasmasks in biscuit tins which the school had sensibly bought from a bakery for threepence each. The boys were excused from wearing toppers on campus (but not off), because high hats would congest the school air-raid shelter. Each boy could keep one book, also chocolate, in the shelter. But the famed pack of Eton beagles was to be reduced, for economy, from eleven and a half to six and a half couples...
Notes between the notes: Word has slipped through that Benny Pollack, famous old Dixieland band leader, has sued Benny Goodman, Bob Crosby and various other people for swiping some of his arrangements, "Bugle Call Rag" being mentioned specifically. This may or may not be true. But, if this sort of suit is going to be the fashion, most of the country's better band leaders are going to end up behind the bars. It's been the custom for sometime to swipe ideas from everyone on standard tunes such as "Bugle Call Rag"...Artie Shaw has been sued for another...
...between the halves interval the band formed "Hold That Tiger" and then proceeded to play a Tiger medley including Tiger Rag...
...just removed. Paul van Zeeland, former Premier of Belgium, in his cabin with his wife and four children, was knocked unconscious. A kettle of boiling water and grease engulfed Fred Stover, chief butcher. Mrs. Tatiana Sztybel, refugee from the siege of Warsaw, was hurled against a wall like a rag doll, left moaning with a badly injured spine. In the smoking room, where water poured through shattered ports, men and women and furniture were piled in a jumbled heap while the precipitous floor turned slick with blood and water...