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Blues on the River (Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band; Decca LP). Trumpeter Yank Lawson and Bass Fiddler Bob Haggart, onetime nerve centers of Bob Crosby's Bobcats, take their outfit on a music ride down the Mississippi (from Davenport, Iowa to New Orleans) in the grand old style...
...butter problem be solved? Answered an executive of one of the Midwest's biggest creameries last week: "Butter never will make it unless they yank out the supports and let butter go to a competitive 50?-or wherever supply & demand pegs it . . . Who can pay 70? a lb. for butter when you can get margarine for 30??" Such a proposal would hardly sit well with the dairy farmers. But many a butter dealer last week thought that something could be learned from the experience of potato farmers. Since supports were dropped from potatoes nearly 18 months ago, the market...
...calls for ten pictures a year, but Jungle Sam keeps his program "flexible," i.e., a batch of titles adaptable to any situation, usually some front-page news. A few days after the Korean war broke out, a Columbia executive sighed for a Korean film. "How would you like A Yank in Korea?" asked Sam. "Great!" replied the executive. Six weeks and two days later, A Yank in Korea (a remake of A Yank in the R.A.F. and predecessor of A Yank in Indo-China) was ready for distribution...
...from the Middle East, it was decided that the job was too much for even such a peripatetic correspondent as Bell. Late this spring he was joined by Dave Richardson, who had been a TIME correspondent in New Delhi, Germany and London, and before that a combat correspondent for Yank...
...take the British character of their countrymen into account. When the Communists tried to spread leaflets, seven were arrested on charges of disorderly behavior and dropping "litter . . . otherwise than in a proper receptacle." Other comrades sneaked up to the U.S. embassy in tree-lined Grosvenor Square and daubed "Yank, Go Home" messages across the windshields of a line of U.S. cars...