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...further decree of the Fuhrer last week, No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Goring will exercise the functions of Acting Minister of Economics until January 15. On that date Herr Walther Funk, considered a Goring henchman and today a state secretary in the Propaganda Ministry, be- comes Economics Minister...
...benefactor and his good friend, paid the expenses of an orchestra of Curtis students, faculty members and 29 Curtis graduates now playing in major U. S. orchestras, and with the Institute's Fritz Reiner on the podium they played the pompous Academic Festival Overture of Brahms. The date of the Hofmann Jubilee was also Rubinstein's birthday (Nov. 28). For this reason, and because Josef Hofmann was the only private pupil Rubinstein ever took-after the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children had his first U. S. tour cut short, and Financier Alfred Corning Clark came...
...Troy, complete with radio broadcasts, scenes in night clubs, pacifist demonstrations. In it Troilus is cast as a kind of star quarterback; the siege is a cross between a football game and a marathon dance; Cressida is a modern young woman whose wisecracks seem not quite so up-to-date; Pandarus is a Wall Street sophisticate; the Horse is a symbol whose exact significance cannot be determined from the text...
Since no one has seriously advanced the idea of dominion status for the Philippines since the 1946 independence date was set three years ago, Shadow Boxer Quezon's novel cry for "someone else" last week seemed to suggest that what he really wanted was the unbeatable situation of occupying both corners of the ring. At week's end he relaxed from his labors, entered a hospital to have his appendix...
...Ends and Means, his most ambitious non-fiction work to date. Huxley states his full gospel. For 30 centuries, he says, all men have agreed on man's ideal goal: liberty, peace, justice, brotherly love. The catch has been that nobody could agree on which road to take. Now "most of the peoples of the world are rapidly moving away from it. . . .At no period of the world's history has organized lying been practiced so shamelessly. . . . Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." First step in the right direction, says Huxley...