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...Philo Sherman Bennett Prize
...your article on "Keyboards" (TIME, Aug. 5) you give the cost of the Vertichord $295 to $445. Should have been $395 to $445, f. o. b. factory. I believe such honorable merchants as John Wanamaker (New York & Philadelphia), Lyon & Healy (Chicago), and Sherman, Clay & Co. (San Francisco), and others who sell Vertichord pianos will appreciate a correction. Vertichord is a trade name. There are other makes of the new vertical piano types which sell as low as $295-but not Vertichords...
...Last week in Sherman, Tex., Federal District Judge Randolph Bryant granted a temporary injunction against collection of cotton taxes levied under AAA's auxiliary Bankhead Cotton Control Act, declared informally: ''I think the law is clearly and plainly unconstitutional." †Admonished 69-year-old Mrs. Wallace, when photographers approached her son: "Now brush your hair, Sonny, and be a credit to the Government...
Round No. 1 was Radio's when it persuaded the Federal-Government to charge the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers with violation of the Sherman Antitrust Law (TIME, Sept. 10). Round No. 2 came in November when ASCAP countered with a driving defense, filed in behalf of its 1,015 songwriters and publishers. For the use of its members' music ASCAP now demands a 5% share of broadcasters' net receipts. Radio claims that it would be starved without the millions of songs which ASCAP controls. But Radio objects to ASCAP's price...
...printer-publishers were onetime typesetters on the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, Union (morning & evening) and Daily News, on strike since last month (TIME, May 27). When the strike occurred, hard-boiled Sherman Hoar Bowles, owner of all four Springfield newspapers, published them in typewritten form until he could get strikebreakers on the job. After four weeks on the picket line, the strikers scraped together enough money to launch the Journal, a 16-page, 2? tabloid full of local news. Two unemployed newshawks helped them. Local merchants, theatres, lunchrooms, liquor stores bought liberal advertising space. Press run: 20,000. All proceeds went...