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...boots, fearing that NBC's juicy contracts might tempt their most prized performers. Manager Alfred Reginald Allen of the famed Philadelphia Orchestra tried to placate the NBC menace by offering the loan of his players ''at any time," including his two world-famous instrumentalists-suave Oboist Marcel Tabuteau and courtly, grey-haired Flutist William Kincaid...
...among architectural students was that the "faculty jury," which judged all undergraduate designs, could not be as fair as the individual professor who set each class its problem. To this complaint Professor Gropius lent a sympathetic ear, changed the system. Another Gropius innovation was instruction in industrial design by Marcel Breuer, a Hungarian designer who is credited with having developed the first tubular chair. Now in prospect are workshops where Breuer pupils may learn at first-hand the uses of modern materials. But the most extraordinary proof of Architect Gropius' success is a requirement soon to be adopted...
...When Marcel Rochas, a celebrated Parisian dressmaker, opened a branch shop in Manhattan last September, merchandisers spoke of his "business daring." No other important Parisian had ever dared sell retail in Manhattan in competition with stores like Saks-Fifth Avenue which bought from him wholesale in Paris. The sort of ladies who made up M. Rochas' customers babbled incoherently of his sleek hair and out-of-door complexion. Last week the ladies were back buying at Saks-Fifth Avenue and talking of somebody else's outdoor complexion, and again there was no branch of an important Paris dressmaker...
...released for transfer to the Paris I. N. S. office. The New York Times's, bureau chief, G. E. R. Gedye, who had spent 13 years in Vienna, was ordered to leave the country in three days. His expulsion was countermanded but he would not stay. Marcel W. Fodor, famed Manchester Guardian and Chicago Daily News correspondent who supplied John Gunther and Dorothy Thompson with much of their Hitler-baiting background, thought it best for his health to flee Austria. Acme's Photographer Ernest Kleinberg, a Polish Jew, was taken into "protective custody." By week...
...University's motto applies to present as well as past truth. But present truth is more awkward than past and a concern for factual teaching is sometimes a simple disguise for evasion of present truth. Yours very sincerely, Marcel Francon, Instructor in Romance Languages...