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...whittled-down OPA, which must pass on the recommendation within 30 days, this was a real poser. Said one OPAster: "Honestly we don't know what we will or have to do ... whether we'll have to raise the ceilings in order to hold the control lines...
Until the new farms started producing beef and beans and until the new houses were built, Grau had a more immediate problem in keeping wages and living costs (up 275% since prewar) in line. Another poser: how to keep the Communist tail from wagging the Cuban...
Virgil Thomson: Five Portraits (Phila delphia Orchestra, Virgil Thomson conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). The com poser's five friends (among them Pablo Picasso, Conductor Alexander Smallens) can't be as dull as his musical sketches of them. Performance: good...
...Question. According to the Sydney Sunday Telegraph, the favorite Australian poser concerning the U.S. is the Negro problem. Sydney folks wanted to know whether a Negro could become President, how the U.S. proposed to settle the Negro problem "in view of the coming recognition of the equality of other races with the white." They also wanted to know whether Mary Pickford was still married, what the Statue of Liberty represented, how much to believe of the Hollywood version of the U.S., whether the people prefer nightclubs to churchgoing...
...those more or less interested in the conditioning program, there are classes in the gym at 11:15, and 12:15 o'clock and at the field at 3:45, 4:45, and 5:30 o'clock. The afternoon presents a poser to the authorities since laboratory conflicts are widespread, and classes are very large. On the rainy days, Soldiers Field will move into Briggs Cage...