Word: sharpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the polls, Wendell Willkie last week seemed close to defeat. But a fact weightier than polls, sharper than experts, still gave him hope: this was 1940, when nothing was certain but the sunrise...
...America's appetite for news has grown sharper. It takes some 25,000 local reporters and 1,888 daily newspapers to gratify it. Altogether, 300,000 men and women are engaged in telling you what is happening in the world, with all the trimmings you're accustomed to-comic strips, women's pages, photographs, society notes, advice to the lovelorn, columnists, cartoons, editorials, crossword puzzles...
Best news this reviewer has had in a long while concerns Red Norvo. Red is my opinion is one of the greatest musicians in the business. Excluding his undoubted ability on xylophone, he has a sharper and better trained ear, and an ability to get what he wants out of even a raw band that no one else seems to have. However, due to men being taken away from him by leaders who could afford better payrolls, Red has had man after man swiped away from him. Climax came when arranger Eddie Sauter left to go with Benny Goodman...