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...program-even its scripting, which Ace does himself. Unlike Fred Allen (who overmodestly says Goodman Ace is America's greatest wit), Goodman Ace burns no midnight oil, drips no sweat. He usually tosses off a script in an hour and a half. His cigars give him a convenient yardstick: a one-cigar script is apt to be terrific, a two-or three-cigar script fair, a four-cigar script a stinkaroo. Rehearsals are similarly carefree. A light once-over usually suffices. Anything more than that, Goodman Ace insists, kills the spark of spontaneity...
...July 31, 1914, a period of lush agricultural prosperity. The object of parity: to give farmers the same purchasing power now that they had in that period. The reason: when the New Deal started in 1933 to try to get fair prices for farmers, a yardstick of "fairness" was needed and lobbyists picked a favorable yardstick...
Britain's Precept. A yardstick to show how far WPB and the entire nation must go before they are really all-out in World War II, was provided last week by Donald Nelson's British counterpart, Minister of Production Oliver Lyttelton. Captain Lyttelton made an international broadcast not intended as an invidious comparison but as a reminder that Britain's war effort is one of the United Nations' great assets. He cited two statistics...
...Census listed as "illiterates" those who could not read or write (4.3% of the population); in 1940 it dropped the reading & writing questions as no longer significant. Now educators class as illiterate adults who failed to finish the fifth grade (13.5%). The Army uses the same yardstick...
...music goes, we are a very tolerant decade, and willing to listen to almost any old symphonic scraps and husks which show signs of technical skill in the fashioning. As a result we have no single general style to use as a critical yardstick, and have to depend largely on our instinctive reactions. When, therefore, out of the common welter of academic modernism, music with Szostakowicz's internal strength and broad emotional appeal comes to light, then there is a mighty dither among critics and listeners alike, and the heavy-duty-adjectives are brought into play. On the whole, however...