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...fortnight with no more warning than a tropical thunderstorm. Overnight, apparently from nowhere, the myriads of mice appeared. Too weak from hunger to walk, they crawled across fields and into houses, nesting in coat pockets and automobile cushions, devouring everything in sight, from kapok mattresses to sultanas on the vine. When nothing else could be found, the mice ate each other or nibbled at sleeping farmers. In desperation the farmers tied strings around the bottoms of their trousers...
Change the boards of the symphony into young, active organizations, not figureheads of the diamond horseshoe. Let New York ponder the fact that the Detroit Symphony, withered on the vine four years ago, will pay for itself this season with radio programs, recordings, concerts and moneys from rental of the Music Hall, our permanent home. Culture must be put on a businesslike basis before it can stand on its own. ... If singing jingles can pay for themselves, so can Brahms, Beethoven and Bach...
...shine all the time in Cambridge and the Square may not match Hollywood and Vine, but cinema magnates after a short visit this weekend have their eye on the Yard for a "location" rendition of Helen Howe's "We Happy...
...just like jazz; no matter how good the ingredients are, it's how they're put together that counts." The speaker drove home his point with the help of a persistent, snappily manicured forefinger while overhead towered a big-busted swing singer traced in white tempera on the vine-colored wall which goes around the Savoy. He had a bald, top-shaped head ornamented with rimless glasses. This combined with the soft-spoken, non-alcoholized manner of speaking to which he kept doggedly despite the competition of a vociferous alto saxophone gave him the air of a dignified old schoolmaster...
...districts," each choosing its officers in a democratic election, and running its own affairs. Bennett's experts would help the districts as "land doctors." In their kits they had a dazzling array of medicines. For gullies, they described cheap, home-made dams and new plants, such as kudzu vine, to hold the sliding soil. For hilly fields they prescribed novel methods of contour plowing, strip planting, terracing. For run-down soils, they recommended cover crops and suitable fertilizers. They would survey and test a whole district, then tell farmers how to make soil more productive...