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...Amazing is the chemists' progress against bugs. Every soldier now carries a tin of powder (pyrethrum plus a synthetic insecticide called IN-930) with which he can deflea himself in a jiffy, a tiny vial of fumigator (methyl bromide) with which he can quickly delouse his clothes in a sealed paper...
...Doll had a sheet-music sale of more than 500,000 copies and a phonograph-record sale of close to a million. It was proving again that yesterday's flop may live to be today's smash, and recalling the story of a very woebegone resident of Tin Pan Alley...
...love affair, by an improvident Broadway dance-hall violinist named Johnny Black. The song did not even find a publisher. Black shelved it and went to work on another, the durable Dardanella, which became the rage of 1919 and has been under continuous revival ever since. But, according to Tin Pan Alley's best-informed chroniclers, luckless Johnny Black sold Dardanella outright for $25, and, when he got around to suing Publisher Fred Fisher, who made a million out of it, netted only...
Next day he learned that he was one of many blacks who had been arrested and fined for adultery. Radebe dug a 1925 marriage certificate from his tin trunk and went to court to get his money back...
Even in the U.S. Lecuona's tunes outsell those of many a top-flight Tin Pan Alleyite (Decca alone has sold over 1,700,000 records of Andalucia). They also stay in the top sales brackets longer than most Tin Pan Alley songs (Malagueña has been averaging 100,000 sheet-music sales a year in the U.S. for 20 years...