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...Walker and Gene Sullivan; many & many another. On these lists, collectors of Americana might find some rewarding items; jazz addicts would be overpowered by the prevailing corny fla vor. But Decca and Columbia would no more scrap their hillbilly catalogues than they would Bing Crosby and Benny Good man. Scout Kapp used to spend a month on a recording trip. Now, with ten trunks full of recording equipment, he camps in a city hotel for ten days, and the musicians come from miles away to play for him. Bandsmen, who must join the musicians' union, get the standard minimum...
...reviewing stand trotted the Sixth Cavalry's first squadron (cavalry-talk for battalion): 424 horses carrying troopers armed with Garand rifles and automatic pistols, 48 pack horses loaded with machine and anti-tank guns. After them in a cloud of blue smoke snorted the second squadron: 68 armored scout cars, no motorcycles, trucks, rolling kitchens, ambulances. Spectators found the motor squadron old stuff. More interested in the horse squadron, they watched it trot up to 58 truck-trailer combinations, unsaddle, walk its mounts up inclined tail gates, tie them inside. Within 10½ minutes horses were loaded eight...
...spite, and two sister battleships on a full-speed dash westward. To scour the sea carefully and not reveal his full force, it was natural for Sir Andrew to split his command into two or more columns, one of which was the force seen by the Italian scout south of Crete. In the night the columns made rendezvous. Off Cape Spartivento next day Sir Andrew encountered the Italians, who had ventured out with two of their six battleships, the fast but thin-skinned Giulio Cesare and Conte di Cavour, together with some heavy (10,000-ton) cruisers and usual destroyer...
...thumb-twiddling local musician to stand by. Jimmie Petrillo forbade Chicago men to make phonograph records which might be broadcast. He saw to it that political campaign trucks resound with live musicians, not recordings. When a giant panda was to be welcomed by a troop of Chinese Boy Scout buglers, Petrillo demanded that eight union men be hired as well. Italian as were his sympathies, he hit the ceiling when the Italian Consul arranged for amateurs to play at an Italian celebration...
...this year, when Hitler began thinking of his post-war relations with the U. S., he logically dug Lawyer Westrick out of the pigeonhole marked: "familiar with the inside of a U. S. businessman's lunch club, controllable." No beer-hall Nazi is Dr. Westrick, but simply a scout and atmosphere-conjurer, sent over to feel out Big Business sentiment and plant some seeds...