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Last week Britain's armed forces got their youngest and sweetest general. Mrs. Jean Knox, 33, a neat brunette with quick blue eyes and smileable lips which she colors vermilion, took over as Chief Controller (feminine counterpart of Major General) of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (feminine counterpart of the Army...
...minute after he steps out on the floor of the Senate, Lee O'Daniel has promised to introduce a Federal counterpart of the bill he pushed through Texas' legislature, outlawing violence by strikers. He will start agitating for bigger old-age pensions, threatens to pin back the ears of "pussyfooting politicians" around Franklin Roosevelt...
This interpretation was obviously out of reach of the modulated 1941 counterpart of Valentino-downy, dark-eyed Tyrone Power. In Producer Darryl Zanuck's expensive, Technicolored remake of Blood and Sand, nice Mr. Power acts as if he were just acting. He is. Tyrone Power, as many a U.S. female knows, is cute. Neither Juan Gallardo nor Rudolph Valentino nor any other Latin male was ever cute...
...clearest evidences that real swing music is growing in popularity while its commercial counterpart is gradually drifting out of fashion is the policy of reissuing old jazz classics which the big recording companies have been pursuing the past two years. As I said last week, there's no doubt that the furore over swing which has been going on ever since Benny Goodman scaled the heights five years ago has done the cause of jazz music a world of good, and the boys at Victor, Columbia, and Decca have presumably been cashing in on the widening audience for the attractions...
Japanese Protestants insist that their church is far from being on the defensive. Their best-known leader and one of their spokesmen at Riverside, trachoma-cured Toyohiko Kagawa, last year headed an aggressive Nation-wide Evangelistic Movement which statistically did much better than its American counterpart, the National Christian Mission (TIME, April 14). In 247 meetings it. drew 86,485 people (one person for every three Japanese Protestants, compared to the Mission's one for every 18 in the U.S. Protestant constituency) and made 1,868 converts (adding nearly 1% to Japan's Protestant church rolls, compared...