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Sirs: In my opinion the inclusion of Monteverdi, Palestrina and Chopin in the twelve best list of composers voted by the musicologists is almost as absurd as the inclusion of Tin Pan Alley Gershwin by the Stanford students. And where are the two greatest symphonists of our time-Sibelius and Shostakovich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 31, 1943 | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

Every four weeks some 15,000 new items are added and 10,000 out-of-date ones are thrown away to keep the walls of the TIME & LIFE Building from bursting. To save space we keep newspapers on microfilm-800 pages on a roll the size of a sardine tin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 31, 1943 | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

Last week the U.S. Board of Economic Warfare estimated that the Germans had plundered $36,000,000,000 worth of automobiles, petroleum products, zinc, lead, nickel, tin, hides, clothes, soap, toothpaste, razor blades, cotton, cattle, bauxite, cauliflower, fish, horses, wines, locomotives, trains, trackage, houses, seaport equipment, steel works, forests, trucks, tank cars, art collections, cattle herds, ships, in the countries of conquered Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Actuality | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...Time Goes By was sung in a Broadway show called Everybody's Welcome, recorded by Rudy Vallee (Victor) and Jacques Renard (Brunswick). Forty thousand discs were sold and then the tune dropped from U.S. memory. Composer Hupfeld, who in his time had turned out such Tin Pan Alley hits as Sing Something Simple and When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba, came to the conclusion that he was through. For ten years he seemed to be right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dooley & Dodo | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...most of the population, including the tin miners, medical care and sanitation are woefully insufficient. "There does not exist in Bolivia today a single safe water system under proper control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Who Stands Accused? | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

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