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...following squib is supposed to be the straight dope, even though it comes from the Chicago Tribune. "Only last Saturday night, recalled the witness, he saw '100 semi-officers of the Navy' eating at Barney's. He later identified the semi officers' as onsigns." Leave us be discreet, Duffy...
...midseason thudded by last week, football's journeymen had all but forgotten the Sun's biffy: an eight-column headline story on a pressagent's squib that most of the Chicago Bears came from war jobs. The story had sicked the War Manpower Commission into investigating. But last week Elmer Layden, professional football's commissar, had in his pocket the WMC decision that football is the principal job of professional footballers...
...analyze over a thousand representative records, most of them available today, and include to boot a short history of Jazz, which seems to have been compressed from "Jazzmen," which appeared a couple of years ago. Obviously an ambitions book like this cries out for more attention than this little squib can give, and it will get it next week. . . . Mike Levin, who started this column three scaut years ago, is busy as ever around New York, what with a new feature in "Orchestra World" and a labor of love helping Red Norvo under way with his new band. . . . Harry James...
...Moley, Moley, Moley, Lord God Almighty" was a much-quoted squib in Washington during the first New Deal, when Professor Raymond Moley was indeed mighty in the Brain Trust. While Mr. Moley was serving Franklin Roosevelt and accumulating a reputation for vanity, he was also storing away a vast stock of personal notes, memoranda and unwritten recollections. Last week the written sum of it appeared in book form, a good 20 years before Franklin Roosevelt might normally have expected himself and his early administration to be thus exposed from within...
Surprised to read your squib in Transport column (TIME, May 9) on Verdun High's 5? hydrogen-charged balloon and its long distance perambulations which weren't long distance at all. ... It all came out in the early wash the day after the letter arrived that a member of the chemistry class which released the balloon had connived with a pen-pal in Singapore to mail the letter, which he himself wrote. The prank-loving student felt the qualms of conscience and 'fessed up when his classmates collected a sum of money to send to the "Chinese...