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...production (The Little Foxes, Tallulah Bankhead's first stage hit in six years) give a benefit performance. Lithe Miss Bankhead raged into the headlines, said she'd donate her own salary not for one performance but for a whole week ($1,000) to the Finns. Other pro-Finland stars and producers rushed to support Miss Bankhead, castigate Mr. Shumlin. Somebody pointed out that Herman Shumlin was the only Broadway producer advertising in the Communist Daily Worker. It seemed that Mr. Shumlin had almost no friends except Leftish Lillian Hellman, who writes some of the best plays he produces. John Golden...
...Congress, aid to Finland moved more slowly. The Senate Banking & Currency Committee passed, 18-to-2, a compromise bill which would let the Export-Import Bank lend Finland $20,000,000 in addition to the $10,000,000 in credits already furnished.* The bill then faced a perilous passage: the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, debate on the floor, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, debate in the House...
...well confirmed last week was the fact that German troops, reported moving last fortnight into this part of old Poland (TIME, Jan. 29), were there primarily to operate and police this trackage. Paris heard a less likely story that Russia had given Germany, in return for technological help against Finland, a new "Polish Corridor" 40 miles wide, straight through to the Rumanian border. There was even a report that Germany might build a pipeline...
Coach Jaakko Mikkola of the track team learned last week of the death of his brother Jalnari, a victim of bombing in Finland. Jalnari Mikkola was the head surgeon of a hospital in Nurmes which has been subjected to repeated bombings during the latter part of last week...
...wounding of a nephew, son of one of his other two brothers who are now in Finland, was also reported...