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...burn treatment, in which a wax film is sprayed from a flit gun on damaged tissues, was described last week by Lieut. Commander Ralph Cooper Pendleton of the Navy Medical Corps. The new treatment was used with success on 97 sailors who were badly burned at Pearl Harbor and removed to Mare Island Naval Hospital (on San Francisco Bay). Now it is fast being adopted by more & more surgeons aboard the Navy's ships...
Polish, Curiosity, Comics. A cross between the London Times and James Gordon Bennett's old New York Herald, La Prensa is unlike any other newspaper anywhere. In its fine old building the rooms are lofty and spiced with the odor of wax polish, long accumulated. Liveried flunkies pass memoranda and letters from floor to floor on an old pulley and string contraption. But high-speed hydraulic tubes whip copy one mile from the editorial room to one of the world's most modern printing plants-more than adequate to turn out La Prensa's 280,000 daily...
Quartet recording in past years has often been a slip-shod business. Victor especially seems contented just to get the sound down on wax and let it go at that. Not so, however, with Columbia's Budapest Quartet series. Here are four players, each a first rate soloist in his own right, welded together into the kind of unit you find in a good crew or ball team. Other quartets have the same precision, and occasionally the same warmth of tone, but the Budapest people have that extra something that brings the music to life and gives it symphonic dimensions...
...from the intention of this observer to wax political, but it was rather fitting that the future financial leaders of the country should meet the representatives of the government on a competitive basis. Big Business and the New Deal have hardly been the best of friends during the past decade. But there were no hard feelings on the diamond yesterday; in fact, through an intricate series of walks, the Harbus hurler presented the Navy with dis first run in the opening minutes...
...Lunceford's version of it on Decca shows such imagination and ingenuity that the tune, while recognizable at all times, is a secondary consideration. Earl Hines's "Jersey Bounce" on Bluebird is comparatively unknown, yet it is probably the most vivid and happily-conceived version ever put to wax. So try a direct comparison on well-known songs if you want to find the gateway to good jazz...