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Guadalcanal's boxing has become so popular throughout the Solomons that it is now broadcast by radio. In last week's popular card, matching Hawaiian soldiers against Marines, the Marines took six out of nine. MPs ruled no decision on five fist fights in the audience...
...most famous ballet conceived in Soviet Russia had its Manhattan premiere last week. It was The Red Poppy, a stark, fist-shaking proletarian melodrama set to lush, romantic music by Russia's aging Reinhold Glière. It caused almost as much excitement in Manhattan's City Center of Music and Drama as it had in Moscow at its first performance in 1927. The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, with Alexandra Danilova as the star, gave it an energetic performance. But it was not the same Red Poppy that Muscovites had cheered in the Bolshoi Theater 17 years...
...drawn into discussions as to the possibilities of OSRD inventions for the peace to come. OSRD's sole job, he considers, is to shorten the war. But one thing he would like to see continued after the war-something like OSRD. Says he, hammering his desk with his fist: "If we had been on our toes in war technology ten years ago, we would probably not have had this damn...
...shot him some from my ball turret. Then Friday let him have it as he came through the other side. It just tore his tail off as though a big fist had twisted it. One guy baled out and we saw his chute open...
This was smart business. Most of the paintings were flower pieces, rural landscapes, near abstractions, street-scenes-with-elevated. A few were by the clenched-fist school. Some were competent and some were remarkably bad. But, good or bad, the wartime boom had long since included a heavy demand for cut-rate culture on the wall (TIME, Sept...