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Sired by a national champion, Air Pilot, whose own sire, Muscle Shoals Jake, had also won at Grand Junction, Air Pilot Sam has taken seven major stakes this season, including the U. S. All-Age at Holly Springs, Miss. last month, the National Free-For-All Championship and Canada's Saskatchewan Prairie Chicken Trials and Dominion Championship. Sam showed his mettle at Grand Junction last year. During an exercise run for the benefit of MARCH OF TIME cameramen, he collided with a pack of darky dogs in pursuit of a rabbit, was ganged, had a collie's fang...
...which Vigow as usual took best of breed. But by virtue of his 19 group victories during the year, the American Kennel Club last week named Vigow of Romanoff best U. S.-bred dog of 1936. Winner of the same distinction in 1935, Vigow again posed with grand ducal composure on a table in the Club's offices while Executive Vice President Charles T. Inglee handed his proud owner a prize check...
...nnhilde in Götterdämmerung is the hardest role in all grand opera. She suffers such violent emotions, has to sing such grueling high passages, that few singers have ever made her sound convincing. Wagner used to pace the floor in anguish while writing Brünnhilde's songs. Time and again he asked himself whether any woman alive would be equal to them. Last week's audience again marveled at Kirsten Flagstad's command of the role, the way she used her strong, rich voice to convey Brünnhilde's unutterable happiness...
Cast up last week by the Department of Commerce's Finance Division were the grand accounts of U. S. foreign trade and international payments for 1936. To foreigners the U. S. sold $2,453,000,000 worth of goods, 8% more than the year before. From foreigners the U. S. bought goods worth $2,419,000,000, an increase of nearly 20%. Result was the smallest balance in favor of the U. S. since the days of Grover Cleveland ($34,000,000 as against $236,000,000 in 1935). Furthermore, the U. S. paid out $60,000,000 more...
Added to this debit was the bill for the year's staggering total of gold and silver imports-$1,210,000,000. Thus the grand total on the debit side of the U. S. ledger...