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...little Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe cabaret by its nostalgic floor shows about the Gay Nineties and the Naughty Naughts. Last week Rose said good-by to all that, leaped into the future. "Come to New York," large ads advised Washington's brain-trusters, "and see our Post-War Preview, which concerns itself not with the fuss, but with the fun of the future. We have some important figures to submit. We'd like to show you a world with not too much milk, perhaps, but overflowing with honeys...
Overflowing with honeys, indeed, is Billy Rose's Post-War Preview - a thing of shapes to come. It is the most enticing of postwar vistas, the most alcoholic of Beverage Plans. And it is simplicity itself. No futuristic dream, Rose's postwar world is merely the good old days. Beginning with a riotous "Night of Unconditional Surrender," it shows a restored Gay Paree of foamy-petticoated cancan dancers; a restored lustige Wien waltzing to Lehar and Strauss; a melodious potpourri of old Jerome Kern tunes. Last comes a Victory Ball attended by Roosevelt, Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek...
Visiting the United States as a private citizen on invitation of the Rockefellor Foundation, and not as a representative of his government. Sir William Beveridge author of the plan for post-war social security in England, spoke at the Littauer School of Public Administration on Tuesday...
Speaking at Professor Lambie's seminar in Public Administration, Beveridge gave off-the-record impression of the post-war outlook. Among the 75 guests were officials of municipal governments, state commissions, the War Labor Board, and faculty members. He dropped the hint that a broad international Beveridge plan for adoption jointly by the United Nations may be in the making...
Certain members of this committee, organized as the result of recommendations made by Present Conant, will be relieved of all academic duties so that they may devote themselves to studies of post-war problems of education. At the conclusion of their work, they will publish a report which will be available for wide distribution...