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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...furnishes a place for interpolated entertainment. To hire Larry Adler for The Bat was just one more bright idea of the Philadelphia Opera Company, a young, English-singing troupe which has been tossing off bright operatic ideas for three seasons. Besides the solo Blue Danube, Larry Adler had two en cores up his sleeve-Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Ravel...
Tall, deep-voiced and deliberate, John R. Mott, still hale at 76, has practiced self-discipline since youth. He got an en cyclopedia from his father for neither drinking, smoking nor gambling until 21. Not famed for wit or humor, he knows how to find and use facts, whip men up to enthusiasm...
...other things being equal" is to the economist what blinders are to a horse--a means of getting somewhere without having to pay attention to the scenery en route. A good many modern economists still wear these blinders. But since Veblen and Keynes economic theory has realized that the dismal science has no more social justification than a cross-word puzzle unless it applies its tools of analysis to actual problems and turns out answers which are not only theoretically sound but useful in the real world...
...Tokyo had not been bombed from Siberian bases, when Reader Diaz wrote, for a good reason: Siberian bases belong to Russia and Russia, for good reasons (TIME, Dec. 22), was not at war with Japan. U.S. bombers cannot reach Tokyo from Alaska and return without refueling en route. But Reader Dìaz' words are welcome as a bellicose sample of Mexican feeling about...
...derelict Dutch orphan, a ten-year-old Polish Jew who desired only to kill Germans, and ultimately, a Nazi child. All of them he made it his increasingly dangerous business to protect, to convey to England, to reserve from war's destruction both in body and spirit. En route they endured every mechanism of debacle from delayed trains to a strafing, and old Mr. Howard managed his charges with exquisite kindness and tact...