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...suppose the Allies begin to fall back, come what may. Theirs is now a cheerless outlook, unless M. Gamelin is as canny a magician as British propagandists would have us believe. Then Americans wishing to remain neutral must retreat to a second line: they must make a new resolve to stay out of this war at any price--Allies win or lose. They must maintain this resolve above the partners, hatred and sympathy. Successful in this they are successful in their...
...best of its cartoons (by Ogg Fitz-Gerald of the Wall Street Journal) showed a wide-eyed, wavy-eared white rabbit with a magician's wand in its paw (see cut), pulling Franklin Roosevelt from a silk hat, over the caption: "THAT'S NEWS!" Some of its fantastic side lights on Recession...
Music by Ruby Newman, intermission entertainment by the Boston Junior jitterbug champions, a snake-charmer, and a magician, and readings by palmists and character artists will feature Eliot's spring dance, slated for 10 to 3 o'clock on Friday, May 12. There will be dancing on the terrace...
...Last week John Barbirolli, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, who is not generally considered a magician so far as programs are concerned, pulled an exciting Easter rabbit out of his hat. Assisted by the young, well-trained Westminster Choir of Princeton, N. J., the Philharmonic gave Manhattan an earful of Gioachino Antonio Rossini's rare Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass), which is neither little nor solemn. The Mass took almost two hours to perform, was full of the impish but not impious gaiety of Rossini's comic operas (Ceneventola, The Barber of Seville). Rossini...
Jimmy Grippo is a professional magician, hypnotist and manager of a southpaw prizefighter, Melio Bettina of Beacon, N. Y. Last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, 23-year-old Melio Bettina met 32-year-old Tiger Jack Fox of Spokane, Wash, for the light-heavyweight championship of the world (according to the pompous New York State Athletic Commission...