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...showman before he thought of This Ain't Our War, Jay C. proved his feeling for box office several years ago. To push Hormel's chile con carne, he cooked up an expensive musical show called the "Hormel Chile-Beaners," sent it barnstorming through Minnesota. It salted away Jay C.'s right to the title of the Billy Rose of the meat packers...
...least likely to have consequences which will put us in a difficult and dangerous position later on." So wrote Pundit Walter Lippmann last week. Having done so, he proceeded to review the arguments on both sides of the question.* Herewith is an outline (after Lippmann) of the arguments pro & con, a sort of debater's handbook...
Shanghai '37 is Novelist Baum's usual chile con carne ("her eyes went on a pleasure cruise up and down him"), seasoned with local color, a but-life-goes-on philosophy. Curtain sentence: "What must happen, happens." Thanks to Japanese bombs that fell on the Shanghai Hotel when war came, Author Baum's ending has more finality than usual...
Last week Corning Glass Works of Corning, N. Y. announced a newer marvel which some day soon will make house wives grateful: preshrunk glass. A goblet made of this glass is so dense and tough (i. e., so resistant to expansion and con traction) that it can be heated cherry-red, then dipped in iee water without breaking...
...Group's application was made known, wigs hit the green. The Oxford Union, the Oxford Hebdomadal Council and A. P. Herbert, M. P. for Oxford, protested that the Group's use of the name Oxford was misleading. Numerous other M.P.s got into the row, pro and con. Supporters pointed out that the name Oxford was not the exclusive property of Oxford but was applied to shoes, automobiles (Morris-Oxford), an accent. Last week the pros won. The Oxford Group's application was approved, and announced in the House of Commons...