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While New York race-track owners were moaning over the idea of local competition and turf men from coast to coast were frowning on the current overexpansion of the horse-racing business (there will be over 60 supposedly Grade A tracks in the U. S. next year), California went a step further in using horse racing to balance a budget. To Governor Olson, the State Legislature last week sent a bill legalizing (and supervising) poolroom bookmaking and other away-from-the-track horse-race betting. Taxation on California's handbook betting (which is not limited to California tracks) will...
...CURRENT & CHOICE Young Mr. Lincoln (Henry Fonda, Marjorie Weaver, Donald Meek; TIME, June 12). Stolen Life (Elisabeth Bergner, Michael Redgrave; TIME, June 5). The Mikado (Kenny Baker, Jean Colin, Martyn Green; TIME, June 5). Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Robert Donat, Greer Garson; TIME...
...safe to prophesy that the ideological lunatics who abound in every country will, both in the press and out of it, continue their unhappy endeavors to widen the breach between one country and another. I look forward, therefore, to a highly ironical and diverting climax to the current epoch of political myopia...
EXPLANATION This test is reprinted in TIME to enable TIME readers to prove their own knowledge of Current Affairs by the same test that was used in hundreds of schools at the end of last term. Additional copies are available for group programs, on request to TIME'S Chicago office, 330 East 22nd Street...
...Current administrative policy, it must be evident, is doubly calculated to strip Harvard of this intermediate group of its instructing staff. On the one hand, teachers of proved capacity are discharged for no other reason than that they have already taught effectively for eight years. On the other hand, teachers of developing capacity are given every possible incentive, unintentional as well as intentional, not to crowd the eight-year limit. These losses are being tragically multiplied by a growing conviction, which no one can welcome, that an appointment in the University for whatever period--even if can be secured...