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...asked who was his favorite actor. "Ed Wynn," came the prompt reply. And next to him? "My son, Keenan." Who was his favorite after his son? "Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne." Another favorite is Philadelphia. In his show, Ed invents a "brotherly love" gas. He wants to use it on everyone because . . . "then you'll all be like the people in Philadelphia...
...writer is a subscriber to TIME and LIFE magazines. The former recently carried a picture of a Holstein cow family consisting of mother and six calves [TIME, Sept. 27] and certain comments, associated therewith, on the female sterility of mixed sex dual births, prompt me to suggest that TIME'S Letters column put out a feeler for more extensive and confirming information on this biological fact or canard, whichever...
...Prompt to support its members, the National Maritime Union gave the crew's story, charged that Captain Gainard had spun a yarn to the .Washington Post's staff correspondent, Edward T. Folliard, who had a frontpage, five-column scoop on the Algic's, horrific trip. Alleging that Correspondent Folliard was inspired by the Maritime Commission, the N. M. U. statement said: "The crew, organized 100% in the N. M. U. conducted itself in the disciplined and orderly fashion that has made the N. M. U. the choice of the overwhelming proportion of the men who go down...
...recent drastic decline in stocks, on a very moderate volume of selling, reveals an impairment of the efficiency of the stockmarket that calls for prompt correction. This impairment is to be explained as the cumulative effect of a variety of recent governmental policies, many of which can and should be modified without abandoning the underlying policy of eliminating abuses from the securities market. The tax on capital gains at high bracket income tax rates can be changed to a low rate flat tax with positive gain in revenue to the Treasury. The rule regarding trading by insiders can be modified...
Fascist Triumvirate. In Japan, Germany and Italy prompt and angry reactions to the Chicago speech suggested that the President had gone a long way toward stinging these mutually friendly Fascist powers into a hard triumvirate. Probably prematurely, Japan's news agency Domei announced that at a call by the Italian Ambassador upon Japan's Foreign Office assurances were given of "Italy's sympathy and support in Japan's 'self-defense' campaign in China...