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Clarinetist Pete Davis ' moves out of Manhattan's 46th Street into a series of low-grade dates in Pennsylvania in the early '20s, winds up with a topflight, ill-paid hot outfit in Chicago. His pianist brother Frank sticks to the seaboard; his greater talent and his tameness betray him into the venal successes of the "swing" rage. Between the two of them they cover most of the salient features of jazz and Jazz-living among white musicians. There is some sore stuff on that corrupt necessity, the musician's union, and an interesting passage about...
...outbreak of World War I, sad-eyed Franz Marc became disgusted with human beings, decided to spend the rest of his life painting animals. He painted pink and blue horses prancing in quiet landscapes, garish dogs, tigers, monkeys, cows and deer. Germans regarded him as one of the topflight painters of his period. When Painter Marc was mustered off to war, even his animal world seemed too close to the savage world of reality. From the Western Front he wrote his wife: "Early in my life I found man ugly and animals seemed to me lovelier and purer; but even...
...supply-is the least glorious job in the Army and one of the most necessary, entailing endless complications, endless bookkeeping. Supply officer in the General Staff is friendly, competent Brigadier General Richard Curtis Moore, topflight student at West Point and an engineer officer since he graduated...
...this swift and methodical evacuation, The Netherlands could thank a worldwide commercial system that for years has kept as many topflight Dutch businessmen at work across the seas as it has in the home offices behind the dikes. Typical is husky, eagle-nosed Emile Constant Zimmerman, who after 20 years in The Netherlands East Indies, went to Manhattan five years ago as Netherlands Indies Trade Commissioner. With Holland's flight, control of the Dutch business empire went to dozens of Emile Zimmermans, from London to Batavia, from Manhattan to Shanghai. This week, sleepless but hearty, Emile Zimmerman was able...
...nervous, high-strung man of 41, with his devoted wife, Mary. As medical chief of Boots Pure Drug Co. (biggest British drug chain), he supervised the health and mental-hygiene activities of 22,000 employes. Three years ago, he got in the news by addressing a meeting of topflight British scientists on "neuroses and unbalanced lives." He knew what he was talking about...