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Disarmament First. In his nine-man Cabinet, Plastiras took the four portfolios of War, Navy, Air and Merchant Marine in addition to the Premiership. Most of his Ministers were Liberals; all but one had rightist traditions. The exception: Foreign Minister John Sofianopoulos, 57, who organized Greece's Popular Front party in 1936, visited Russia in 1924 at the invitation of the Russian Government. Not in the Government: representatives of EAM (National Liberation Front), whose fighting arm is ELAS. Places were presumably still open for them...
Stocks & Profits. The job of keeping Gimbel on top poses a knotty problem. Many a merchant fears that he might be caught with huge supplies of substitute goods, if the war should end suddenly, have to take huge losses to sell them...
...economics, earned a B average. From Cambridge, T.V. went down to New York, for further study at Columbia. On the side he clerked for the National City Bank, then suddenly chucked it all for a business career in China. He was 29, a middling success as a coal-&-iron merchant, a young family man married to a former missionary-school belle, Lu-Yee Chang, when history knocked at his door again. As usual, history had the face of Dr. Sun Yatsen...
...time since her husband's death (1933), to open an exhibit of scripts, promptbooks, costumes, other souvenirs,* at the Museum of the City of New York. Clad in black, wearing a black velvet hat modeled after the one she wore as Portia in an 1887 production of The Merchant of Venice, Miss Marlowe read a poem (in a strong, full, ringing contralto) written by her husband, replied, when asked what she thought-of the modern theater, "I wonder if what I think matters...
...similarly chilling material given Comic Bert Lahr and Patter Merchant Doc Rockwell leaves them no choice but to freeze with it. Although Ballerina Alicia Markova rises above an unexciting Stravinsky ballet to display her dazzling technique, she misses the final magic of her dancing. Benny Goodman, as usual, toots his clarinet with equal skill in a hot ensemble and a classical solo...