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Murray's business is up 50% to 100% (most in defense cities), has actually risen 300%...in Los Angeles. There 600 pupils pay $11,000 each month to learn the rumba, smooth swing, jitterbugging or "New Yorker" (West Coast name for the Lindy...
...there was also a brighter side. The Nast pattern business was on the upgrade due to fatter consumer paychecks. The Nast $2,000,000 printing and engraving plant runs three shifts (it prints the New Yorker, Mademoiselle, Nation's Business, a half-dozen other magazines). British Vogue's profits ($100,000 last year) are not shown in U.S. statements...
There is a case for the commercial on the overseas broadcast. The big-network show commercial is as familiar to the U.S. soldier as a birdcall to a country-boy, a subway rattle to a New Yorker. It does not spell mother, but it may spell home. Nevertheless, unless the yum-yum is taken out of some short-wave commercials, it looked as if the Plug Shrinkers club could count on a big AEF membership...
...community near Joliet, Ill. known as Stern Park Gardens was rechristened Lidice last week, leading Paragrapher Howard Brubaker to remark in The New Yorker: "Thus the name which Nazis thought they had extinguished will be mispronounced for all time." As most Americans cheerfully began calling it Le-deese', the Czech Consulate in Chicago gave the Official pronunciation as Li-di-tseh. In Joliet they pronounced...
Died. Ludwig Lore, 67, veteran labor editor, Socialist leader; in Brooklyn, N.Y. Editor of the New Yorker Volkszeitung from 1919 to 1931, he joined the Communists after the Socialist Party split in 1920, helped frame the Communist Party platform, was thrown out by the Communists...