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...executives snap into line, and that teams of writers and researchers then proceed-with a precision that would make the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes look like an awkward squad-to produce that exact story down to the last semicolon. In short, put idea in slot, pull lever and zing-next thing you know a million copies are all over every place...
...Dutch, U.S., British, Swedish, German and Italian rifles, pistols and machine guns, the Dutch ordnance men had made much out of little. They juggled rifle parts to fit their ammunition supply. For armored cars, they walled trucks with double sheets of boiler plate. The first layer took the zing out of armor-piercing bullets, the second stopped them. The improvised cars with their mounted machine guns roared over the narrow, metalized Java highways, barking at advance parties of Jap bicyclists and rushing defenders to threatened points...
...Federal Plaza, 25,000 people heard the San Francisco Symphony play U. S. music, with such composers as Howard Hanson and William Grant Still conducting their own pieces. Edwin McArthur conducted Deems Taylor's Circus Day. The amplification was tinny, airplanes zoomed, firecrackers popped, a military band zing-boomed past but everyone thought the concert was swell. The evening shindig filled the Coliseum (capacity 15,000) and Festival Hall (3,000), left more than 5,000 people clamoring outside. For the 33 numbers on the program, ASCAP and Tin Pan Alley had shot the works. Composers like Jerome Kern...
Well known and loved by Los Angeles school children is a plump, towheaded art teacher named Natalie Robinson Cole. Full of zest and zing, Mrs. Cole likes to break teaching rules, encourages her pupils to break learning rules. Los Angelenos are hocked by her methods, surprised at her results. This summer the remarkable creations of her pupils-mostly Mexicans, Chinese and Japanese-were displayed at progressive teachers' workshops in the U. S., at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Distributed among U. S. teachers this week was a highly readable book, The Arts in the Classroom (John...
...with early New Deal agencies, went to the Navy Department together when Mr. Edison became Assistant Secretary in 1937. When & if Charles Edison resigns to run for Governor of New Jersey, they will presumably go out together. Reason: in the team of Edison & Compton, Lewis Compton supplies the administrative zing, the political brains...