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...half a century since a newspaper could be called, with any degree of accuracy, a "rag." The newspaper files of any large library prove this. Editions aged anywhere from 5 to 50 years are yellowed, brittle, flimsy to the touch. They are printed on wood-pulp paper which ages swiftly. But where editions containing accounts of the Battle of the Marne have already become illegible, editions narrating the Battle of Gettysburg, though handled far longer, remain strong and unfaded. They are on paper made from rags...
Last week the New York Times, expense notwithstanding, began to print a special limited edition daily on 100% rag paper, advertisements, obituaries, rotogravure and all - for the benefit of file-keepers. Considering the completeness and authority of the Times and the aid to future historians promised by its new edition, friends of the Times were more than ever inclined to call it, with unwonted accuracy, "grand old rag...
...cunningly. Then came a stranger, Jacques Ibert, with three pieces from his ballet suite, Les Rencontres, given its U. S. premiere a fortnight ago by the Boston Symphony. In conflicting keys, restless violins traced his vagaries of flower girls and Creoles in the Debussy manner, gossiping women, fishwives taken rag and bone from Stravinsky. Critics damned it, called it dull, found the Mozart and the Schumann a little tiresome too. They blamed the first on the breathless pat-a-pat reading of Conductor Damrosch, the second on the frigid finger tips of Pianist Cortot. All praise went to two Debussy...
...whole matter died away, but it was not forgotten. The loud grumbling of Delaware's Democratic Senator (see p. 10) was as nothing compared to rumors that presidential confidence could never again be respected as of yore; that the quaint rag-doll called "Spokesman" might be pitched aside and the President left without defense from his own tongue...
...Rag, and Bob-tall, in their best Array...