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...beating of their lives while Italian police pretended to marvel at the frequency of brawls and fist fights. As the Nazis fled to Nazidom, the regiment resumed uniforms, the Tirol resumed its calm and in Rome spokesmen for II Duce scoffed politely at "those fantastic rumors from the Alto Adige" (Italy's name for Southern Tirol...
Last autumn her talent for mimicry and histrionics was displayed before an admiring hometown audience, in the amateur theatre of the Palo Alto Community Players. Asked to take the part of the Widow Cagle in Lula Vollmers play of southern mountaineer white trash, Sun-Up (see front cover), Mrs. Norris was worried because the role required a series of hearty pulls on a corncob pipe. She had never smoked in her life, thought herself at 54 too old to begin. But her stage director was adamant. So, experimenting first with cubebs, later with cubeb tobacco stuffed into the bowl...
...Hoover." With a single chorus of "Ayes" all gentlemen present thereupon voted to elect Herbert Clark Hoover a director of New York Life, succeeding the late John E. Andrus (TIME, Jan. 7). From Chicago where he was transacting private business on one of his infrequent trips east from Palo Alto, Director Hoover telegraphed his acceptance. When the board of New York Life meets again next month the newest member will take his place at a table around which sit such men as Hale Holden of Southern Pacific, Percy Selden Straus of R. H. Macy, Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University...
...Stravinsky-Dushkin recitals are scheduled for Minneapolis, Chicago, Toledo, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Carmel, Los Angeles, Montreal, Washington
...BATTLE FOR DEMOCRACY-Rexford G. Tugwell-Columbia University Press ($3). The handsomest of the Brain-Trusters adds his alto to the chorus of Administration authors; a more finished performance than his antiphonal responses to the Senate Committee...