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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germans have more anti-tank guns than the French, and learned the value of heavy armored tanks after the debacle of the light tanks in Spain. But Germans are way ahead in production of planes, build them with speed and without gadgets, "to fight in . . . [not] to live in." Since kudos goes to Nazi airmen, morale of air force is excellent. Göring's policy is to produce pilots in short order, then turn them loose and depend on the survival of the fittest...
...York World's Fair exhibition of "American Art Today" (TIME, May 15), a belated opening ceremony took place last week. One thing none of the felicitous speakers remarked upon was the fact that, huge as it is, this exhibition does not live up to its title. To do so, it would have to represent not the artists of the U. S. alone but those of all the far-flung Americas...
...writing her column, speaking over the radio, doing a monthly article for the Ladies' Home Journal and delivering lectures, Dorothy Thompson was paid $103,000 last year. Her business expenses were $25,000 and she contributed $37,000 in taxes, which left her $41,000 to live on. She gave 20% of that away...
...good enough to have a national ranking* (mainly because of a doubles victory over Davis Cuppers Bobby Riggs and Bitsy Grant in the famed Seabright tournament last summer), the Murphy twins have no intention of becoming "tennis bums" (amateur players who tour the circuit of bigtime tournaments and live on the clubs' "expense accounts"). They want jobs as basketball coaches, a game at which they also excel...
...escape. The U. S. Department of Labor contends that he has renounced his U. S. citizenship, is therefore deportable as an undesirable alien. The various agencies still interested in Grover Bergdoll could let him serve his time, then return him to Nazi Germany, where he no longer wants to live...