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Roebuck and Co. catalogue, printed on a poorer-than-usual quality of paper, was being eagerly scanned by thousands who not so long ago had trooped to department-store perfume counters in their tin hats...
...Meat. The west coast countries reaped a fat profit from such wartime exports as copper, tin and nitrates, but when war ended they well knew that they would have to find trade items to replace the war babies. The Chileans had big plans for ending their dependence on copper and nitrates by industrialization. But building fisheries, power plants, and developing transportation is a long-term process, and it will cost more than Chileans can find. Like their Pacific neighbors, they need help from abroad. The question is, where will it come from...
...Curtice Hitchcock, New York publisher, came across Bonheur in Montreal. When she had read Author Roy's story of life in St. Henri, a smoky slum section of Montreal, she mailed a copy to her brother. Reynal & Hitchcock agreed to publish it. They changed the title to The Tin Flute, and had the book translated into English. Then New York's Literary Guild, whose million members make it the largest book club in the world, read the manuscript. It announced that The Tin Flute will be its May selection, the first work of a French Canadian...
Back a number of years two successful songwriters known as Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, propelled by the conviction that the typical popular song could be classified as somewhere between ridiculous and ghastly, put out a book of songs burlesquing the lyric and melodic conventions of Tin Pan Alley. This collection included such masterpieces of lyric vacuity as the following lines...
...such as "It Might As Well Be Spring," it usually outsells all the others, but the tinkling of the each rolling in remains unheard by publishers and song-writers in their mad effort to turn out "For Sentimental Reasons" a hundred times a year. The deaf sport is in Tin Pan Alley's car, not the public...