Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your review, in verse, of Dali's Macbeth [TIME, Dec. 9] is so clever that I should like to add the original manuscript (or autographed typescript) to our collection...
...partly dust and clay), which will be our sole source of heat this winter. The Japs made scrap of most of China's radiators and Nanking electric power is so rationed that electric heaters we brought with us from the States are useless. I might add, incidentally, that there is no cooking gas here; all food is prepared over wood or coal-dust-cake fires. Our lease is for one year. The rent is $500 a month...
...Social Creditors came a. legal cropper on their means of financing the benefits. They proposed to set up a five-man Board of Credit Commissioners to estimate the value of all the "assets" of the province (mountains, rivers, forests, etc.), developed or undeveloped. All this blue-sky calculation would add up, Premier Manning and friends reckoned, to the grand sum of $231 billion. To this figure they proposed to add the "capitalized productive capacity" of the 800,000 people of the province...
What did it all add up to? Columnist Grantland Rice wrote angrily: "Unfortunately, too much money has come into sport. Call it big business-football, baseball or tennis-but don't call it sport . . . in my opinion the colleges, with the money they hand out to alleged amateurs, are far below the professionals in ethics and true sportsmanship...
...Enfants du Paradis. Three hours of sharp, cynically witty scenes add up to a refreshingly aimless, very French film made during the occupation (TIME...