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Some years ago the publication of the "iBlackbirds Album" was considered TIMEworthy. Two weeks ago was published the "Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Album," worthier in historical importance, in artistic merit and, in view of the renascence of jazz, in fad value...
...were so tempered in the heart and soul of Joe Byrns elements of tolerance, patience and sympathy that he had drawn to him the ungrudging regard and affection of all men who came within the radius of his genial influence." Stumbling through his speech, Minority Leader Snell observed: "No worthier nor more dauntless friend nor foe than Joe Byrns ever smiled across yonder dividing aisle." Late that afternoon a funeral train, with 60 Representatives and 14 Senators aboard, rolled out of Washington, bearing all that was mortal of Joe Byrns back to Tennessee for a second funeral service. Ten minutes...
Oldster George Bernard Shaw, 77 last birthday (July 26), is tidying up his long career. Like all great writers* who have finished their race, have time to rest on their oars, Author Shaw is looking back with pardonable pride at his still effervescent wake, planning to preserve the worthier bubbles in a definitive collected edition. Still an active playwright though no longer the champion sculler he was, Shaw in his time has rowed nearly every position in the boat. He has written novels, music criticism, book reviews, theatre criticism, essays, short stories, speeches, pamphlets (of tremendous length), even- though...
Astonished by their own victory, Labor leaders last week promised to match Vienna's shell-scarred apartment houses with 100,000 small houses, promised to clear London's slums, overhaul its hospitals and schools, "build a worthier and nobler city...
...from a Labor bench popped Sir Stafford Cripps. "This is the first time," he shouted, "that the Government have sought to convince themselves by ingenious arguments that we ought to pay more than we owe! If the Exchequer is going to be generous, I suggest that there are many worthier recipients of charity-such as the unemployed-than wealthy bondholders...