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...Army has spent some $15,000,000 on Garands, needs at least $6,500,000 more to reach its goal of 240,559 new rifles by June 1942. After hearing General Wesson, the House committeemen ap proved a $2,000,000 appropriation for fiscal 1941 with this significant reservation: "The committee is unwilling to take the responsibility of not doing so, even though it later may be found that we have gone ahead too rabidly." Said Committeeman D. Lane Powers (New Jersey): "We do not want to appropriate for . . . additional rifles if what we hear and what we read...
...authentically U. S. symphonic style, a spare, gangling, twangy Oklahoman named Roy Harris may well be the man. Born in a log cabin, Roy Harris is as independent as a Panhandle cowhand, as dryly American as the Dust Bowl where he spent his early childhood. When, in 1926, he ap peared in Eastern concert halls with an awkward, homemade symphonic piece un der his arm, critics took one look and de cided that here was music's own Joaquin Miller. Sent to Paris to study with famed Teacher Nadia Boulanger (TIME, Feb.28, 1938), Composer Harris showed for a time...
...following is quoted from an AP dispatch of several days ago: "Shaw's marriage to Lana Turner last night had all Hollywood baffled . . . They reportedly had not addressed a civil word to each other throughout the filming of their recent picture . . . Lana Turner, who has been engaged for three years to a Hollywood script writer, notified her "flance" of her marriage to Shaw by telephone . . . after the ceremony. She said, 'While on our way to a party we started discussing marriage, and decided we wanted to get married...
...only seven years old." Last week, opposite the Glatt's house in Newark, N. J., a bright new mailbox ap peared on a telegraph pole. It was still across the street and much too high for Bunny, but for once proud Mrs. Glatt stretched a point. While she watched for cars, Bunny carrying an empty wooden box. darted across, stood tiptoe on the box, proudly posted another letter to the President...
August Belmont, 30, grave, highbrowed great-grandson of his namesake who came to the U. S. in 1837 as the Rothschilds' first American representative, was elected director and vice president of Bonbright & Co., investment banking firm. Since graduating from Harvard in 1931, Belmont passed through a Bonbright ap prenticeship in the firm's bond buying department...