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Complaints against HLU competition come with singular ill grace from the current management of the University Theater. Back before the lush wartime days, the U.T. used to make some effort to cater to the tastes of college audiences, particularly in its Wednesday Review Day programs. Now Review Day itself has been all but abandoned, and its few recent appearances have mostly featured faded M-G-M moronities like "Cass Timberlane" instead of such films as "The Informer...
...annual budget message, the President proposed a record peacetime high in spending: $41.9 billion. (Estimated expenditures this year: $40.2 billion.) He asked for a $5.9 billion tax boost,* even though, at current tax rates, estimated revenues for fiscal 1950 are only $873 million shy of what he proposes to spend. The trouble is, the President explained, there is always a lag in collections...
...current TV Hooperatings, Howdy Doody ranks sixth, above the Chevrolet Tele-Theater and just below the Original Amateur Hour...
...Beautiful & Bland. For 20 years Manhattan's Liturgical Arts Society (dedicated to "improving the standards of taste, craftsmanship and liturgical correctness current in the practice of Catholic art in the U.S.") has battled this kind of traditionalism. The society's main argument is that beauty is not necessarily bland or strictly based on tradition. This week it backed up the argument with examples : the society had commissioned ten modern sculptors to make church statues for exhibition in a Manhattan gallery...
...Slower. At Willow Run this week, four new lines of Kaiser-Frazer cars (a taxi, four-door convertible, "hardtop convertible," and "utility sedan") were rolled out in an atmosphere of deep gloom. Since early fall K-F had had to cut production from 800 cars a day to a current 675. It was seriously thinking about cutting back still more to 400 cars a day. Henry and Joe blamed the cutback on the Government's Regulation W under which car buyers must pay at least one-third down and the rest in no more than 18 months. In asking...