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...scribe who said of Till the End of Time, "It was the best-selling jazz record of 1945" [TIME, June 23]-was he kidding the public? Anyone who had the nerve to pen such a banality should be forced to listen to Guy Lombardo, Sammy Kaye and Freddie Martin till the end of time...
Call it corn, schmaltz or what you will, no Mickey-Mouse band wheezing through Till the End of Time could ever, by any stretch of the imagination, play anything but that...
...strategy was clear. Up till now he had been able to sit quietly in the wings at Albany, while congressional rivals and free-speaking Harold Stassen performed before a critical audience. But now it was time to start moving. Dewey needed a blitz win on an early ballot. On every successive vote the chances of a deadlock with someone like Bob Taft would increase the danger of a dark horse...
Trouble for the Army. The Russian-printed marks were distinguishable by a dash in front of the serial number. The Army took no note of it. It cashed in unlimited quantities of invasion marks till November 1945 when it limited the amount convertible to dollars to the amount of the soldiers' pay. In September 1946 it stopped converting marks entirely. By then the Army had on hand $250 million in invasion marks more than it had issued. What was worse, it had no appropriations to cover what it had put out. As far as the U.S. now knows...
...original version of the bill called for a continuation of present wool subsidies till 1948, and the sale of 500 million pounds of wool accumulated by the government at war-profits prices. Dissatisfied with these provisions the House has written in an amendment raising import fees (and therefore prices), and calling for restrictions of wool imports. Thus is spelled out in sober measures what is, in short, an excellent deal for the American wool growers. The value of the amendment to the American consumer, and to the maintenance of world economy, is more difficult to discern...