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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stick to the Facts. Harry Truman seemed a little less bonhomous than usual as he reminded newsmen that those were the facts and he thought that they ought to stick to the facts in their commenting...
...short sans everything but spirit, lung power, and a smattering of relative pitch is worth an hour or so every week. By the sixth chorus of the initial piece, "Darktown Strutters Ball," it had become apparent to the bystanders that here was an occurrence above and beyond the usual order of things. From thence and in the following order "Sweet Sue," "Blues in B Flat," "Tea for two," "Ja Da," and "The Sheik" were attacked. One of the reed men, a startling cross between Johnny Dodds and Joe Marsala blasted out a machine gun-like obligatto in answer...
None of this was mentioned, however, when the Daily Worker made public the fact of his expulsion by the state board of the New York Communist Party. The Worker detailed his sins. Most mortal: fighting the Party's present "political and tactical line." Then, as usual in such cases, came a little character assassination: "In 1934, because of personal conduct unbecoming a member of our Party . . . he was removed from leadership. His degeneracy has proceeded so far that he could not be saved...
Victor Moore lowered his bubble-shaped person into a lovely marble tub, assumed a moderately rapt expression, and, clutching his cigar, gave the world a change from the usual bubble-bath picture (see cut). The secret of his basketball-sized bubbles he kept to himself...
...usual, Bill Corum will pitch the pregame dope and color, the highlights and summary after the last out. As usual, he will leave the Mutual play-by-play to professional announcers. The two men who will describe the action this year are comparative newcomers to a coast-to-coast audience, but familiar voices in the East...