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From the familiar haunts of Radcliffe to faraway Cleveland, the young women-hood of America will converge here to emulate the doings of such former Jubilee guests as Chill Williams and Ann Sheridan...
...Trick. In Seattle, Duke, a hunting dog who for years had ridden in the trunk of Frank Delappe's old car, watched his master lift the hood of a 1947 Studebaker, jumped...
...Robin Hood. Dalton gave the lowest wage group the solace of a cut in income taxes which brought them back to about the 1940 level. The basic rate of nine shillings to the pound (45%) remained. But by lifting the basic exemptions and increasing allowances for dependents, the budget took income tax entirely off about 750,000 low-income Britons. Under the new schedule, a British couple with two children will pay no tax unless they earn more than $28 a week, and they would not pay the 45% rate unless they earned more than $40 a week. The change...
...other respects Dalton's budget followed Labor's Robin Hood thesis of taking from the rich to give to the poor. Taxes on distributed profits (dividends) were upped from 5% to 12½% (a few fortunate Britons breathed easier; they had expected a slashing 20% tax). Inheritance duties were almost doubled. Sales taxes were cut on items including boxing gloves, chamber pots and toothpicks. But a whopping 66⅓% purchase tax went onto heating and cooking appliances...
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting and at the piano; Columbia, 6 sides). An early opus-started in 1917, completed in 1921-which lacks the composer's later lyricism, is difficult to play and almost as difficult to take. Performance: good...