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...ROBIN CRUIKSHANK...
...Robin Hood. Dalton gave the lowest wage group the solace of a cut in income taxes which brought them back to about the 1940 level. The basic rate of nine shillings to the pound (45%) remained. But by lifting the basic exemptions and increasing allowances for dependents, the budget took income tax entirely off about 750,000 low-income Britons. Under the new schedule, a British couple with two children will pay no tax unless they earn more than $28 a week, and they would not pay the 45% rate unless they earned more than $40 a week. The change...
...other respects Dalton's budget followed Labor's Robin Hood thesis of taking from the rich to give to the poor. Taxes on distributed profits (dividends) were upped from 5% to 12½% (a few fortunate Britons breathed easier; they had expected a slashing 20% tax). Inheritance duties were almost doubled. Sales taxes were cut on items including boxing gloves, chamber pots and toothpicks. But a whopping 66⅓% purchase tax went onto heating and cooking appliances...
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting and at the piano; Columbia, 6 sides). An early opus-started in 1917, completed in 1921-which lacks the composer's later lyricism, is difficult to play and almost as difficult to take. Performance: good...
...Robin J. Cruikshank, a sharp-eyed British journalist, told Americans this winter (TIME, Jan. 20) how Europe's ears would be cocked. He asked: "Will Uncle Sam decide to take the expansionist way in the world?" What the U.S. offered at Geneva would be the tipoff: "The first speech of the American spokesman . . . will have all the force of an act, a decisive...