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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side U. S. towns, U. S. brains contained large and unsightly piles of wrecked theories, junked plans, smashed hopes-a wheel off an old 1933 model Technocracy, an axle from Share the Wealth, a busted headlight from Production for Use, fragments of Marxism and the planned economy, half-a-dozen old Utopias that never ran. Here & there under the wreckage were old pieces of twisted slogans, moneychangers out of the temple, 114 days left to save America, grass in the streets, a blue eagle...
With the fall of Warsaw ancient and historic "Holy Poland" was again without a capital (see p. 32). However, through five centuries, half-a-dozen major wars and three partitions until Hitler & Stalin made the fourth, Poland has endured often as a burning ideal in the hearts of the Polish people rather than as a political fact. It was therefore no surprise last week when a brand new Polish Government popped up in Paris. At the Polish Embassy there it was announced that just before President Ignacy Moscicki fled from Poland to Rumania (TIME, Oct. 2) he secretly resigned...
...Wang, though a Cantonese, has a horror of a characteristic Cantonese delicacy, roast snake. Once at an elaborate banquet he complimented his host on a dish he had never tasted before. Told it was "jumping dragon," a deadly Kwangtung snake, he called for water, washed his mouth over a dozen times, left the banquet, went to bed, called Cantonese physicians, was not satisfied until he had gone all the way to Peking and had his stomach examined. The snake Patriot Wang hates most of all is Wang Ching...
...Takes a stance now, pauses dramatically, then lets drive) 'Yuuuh-gay-ay-ay-nuh!' Now, I ask you, gentlemen, if the proposition were put up to you in that fashion - would you?" Ever since he whanged the piano in Harvard's "Gold Coast" dance band a dozen years ago, Hollywood's Charles Henderson has felt that a ditty is no place for a diva. When he got out of Harvard, Charlie Henderson started studying the business of crooning in earnest, as Rudy Vallee's pianist. When he got to Hollywood in 1936, Henderson knew...
...succeeding summers, the Theatre's fame spread, its personnel increased from 22 to 75, its acting orbit widened to take in a dozen towns, its ratio of barter to cash went down, from 9-to-1 to 3-to-2. Not only food, but puppies, razor blades, coffins were offered in payment. A pig traded in the first year for a season ticket produced a litter the second year and started a profitable little sideline in hams. Today, as in the beginning, neither actors nor playwrights receive any cash. To such playwrights as Robert Sherwood, Noel Coward, Maxwell Anderson...