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...Federal and State tariffs on gasoline, theatre tickets, perfumes, cigarets, restaurant checks and long-distance phone calls. Their argument : U. S. citizens should be taxed openly, directly, painfully, if tax reforms are ever to be made. Politicians have merely grinned, gone ahead passing tax bills that make taxation seem painless...
DEATH DINES OUT-Theodora Du Bois -Houghton Mifflin ($2). Among a number of nice people summering at Jones Inlet near New York City, a surgeon-sleuth ferrets out a killer who uses poison at a dinner party. Merit: pleasant, painless and gossipy dialogue. Fault: a little too much dialogue about ladies' clothing...
...become a concert pianist one must thump piano keys five hours a day for at least ten years. To become even a fair-to-middling amateur requires a great deal of patient practice. Inventive minds have long sought painless substitutes for the drudgery involved in learning how to play the piano. Short-cut systems and gadgets of recent years have included Lee Roberts' (Smiles) sliding rule, on which colored dots indicate what notes to play in a given situation; charts distributed by NBC on which chords are indicated by numbers...
...picture is Hollywood's idea of a painless way to present good music to the great American public, but it just doesn't pan out that way. Only those who are sufficiently fond of classical music to sit through some pretty poor sequences are advised to go. We submit the same advice to lovers of more popular music, for Bing Crosby's "Double or Nothing" is far from the ideal musical comedy...
...thesis on the U. S. Federal Reserve System, Paul van Zeeland practiced law briefly, soon went to the Banque Nationale de Belgique, where he rose rapidly to be secretary, director, vice governor. The switch from state banking, generally considered a government service, to active politics was painless. Paul van Zeeland was made Minister-without-Portfolio in the Cabinet of Count Charles de Broqueville in 1934, with the special job of deflating Belgium's dangerously inflated currency. Parliament would not accept many of the reforms he suggested. Paul van Zeeland resigned in November, pulling the Broqueville Cabinet down with...