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...theater on Broadway and de-emphasizing the "star system." This would probably require government subsidy of a revolving chain of professional repertory groups strung across the country. The United States is the only major country that does not today subsidize the arts, and there is currently a movement afoot to have President Truman create a new cabinet post--Secretary of Fine Arts. Surely a capitalistic democracy has a need for artists...
Henri Queuille was hoping for a miracle. What he would actually get, if some of his colleagues had their way, would be a stab in the back. A plan was afoot to bring the Communists back into the government. Chief instigator was that old darling of the U.S. press, Edouard Herriot, President of the Assembly. Following Herriot's lead were about 30 Socialist deputies, a score of M.R.P. deputies and a few Radicals. One of this group explained their ideas...
Three months ago Maria announced that she would die on the night of the Feast of the Assumption, Aug. 15. When the day arrived, the village of San Giovanni Lupatoto was crowded with 20,000 visitors. They came afoot, on bicycles or riding two-wheeled donkey carts. As they waited for Maria's death, their own life brawled through the narrow streets. Barrels of wine flowed at the village inns. Sidewalk loafers opened up parking lots for bicycles, hawked Maria's autograph to dusty pilgrims. In the village square a rusty gramophone was grinding out popular waltz tunes...
...infield, especially Eddie Joost (a shortstop who wears glasses) is inspired. But the team as a whole is slow afoot and short on power hitters...
...union itself is subject to considerable Communist influence and I have been informed that there are plans afoot to bring a Communist-influenced group of students down from Cambridge to march in support of the strike. Because of this I have refused to become associated personally with the proposed demonstrations; but it does not seem to me that the issues of the strike are in any way political. The wages paid at the Harvard Club are shamefully low; the strikers' case is eloquent. Martin P. Mayer...