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Bert Lahr, who's been on the boards since you used to sit on your father's lap at the neighborhood Burlesque, romped into town this week with a routine that sent a front row of bald heads rolling into the aisle and put a fold in the whalebone corset of someone's spinster aunt. Not since Stinky and Shorty pervaded the atmosphere of the Old Howard has this Hub sniffed anything resembling Lahr's patter, and not since Margie Hart twisted her ankle on a faulty runway have Beacon Hill Burghers seen-even on the sly-a morsel like...
...unable through diplomacy to put our weight behind realization of a coalition government, democratic in spirit and action, it would seem better for us and for China that we fold our tents and quietly depart...
...from Yank and OWI. Holiday, Curtis' flashily upholstered but unexciting travel magazine, had dropped from a first-appearance (TIME, Feb. 25) sale of 450,000 to 400,000 (about half of them pre-publication trial subscribers), and newsstand returns were heavy. Fuller brushed off rumors that Holiday might fold ("damn foolishness") and said that Holiday's current circulation was actually above original estimates. Said he: "It has to do better than that. I want it to be hot. I want it to be so hot that it disappears from the newsstands." Over "differences on editorial policy," Fuller fired...
...supporters looked to Yussab as the only man who could 1) salvage Coptic education and finances after centuries of ruinous monopoly by ignorant monks; 2) bring the schismatic subjects of Haile Selassie back to the Coptic fold. Yussab who has crowned Haile Selassie, planned soon to make an almost unprecedented journey to Addis Ababa to placate the Copts' only foreign ally. The 1,500,000 Copts pray that Yussab's diplomacy may avert the wave of persecution which they foresee as an outcome of a resurgent Islam...
Into the Money. It was not until 1937 that the company started selling books through bookstores; and not until 1945 did Gerstenberg and Ettinger venture out of the nonfiction fold...