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...comments on a recent Roper public opinion poll, in which it was found that 62 percent of the American public are willing to submit international problems to an elected world congress with mandatory powers, two faculty experts in international problems expressed disagreement in interviews yesterday...
...Ballet Theater? The only male dancer in the Ballet Theater who is tops is Andre Eglevsky, while John Kriza, John Taras, etc. are strictly still in the stage of development. Obviously no company in America can offer Frederic Franklin in such a wide variety of roles as the "Champeen Roper" in "Rodeo," the "Golden Slave" in "Scheherazade," the "Baron" in "Gaite Parisienne" and in a variety of classic roles ranging from "Les Sylphydes" to the "Nuteracker," and in such modern classical roles as "Danses Concertantes" and "Mozartina...
...which should be accustomed to madmen and murderers, the personality of Adolf Hitler still provokes terrified attention. Last week, an able post-mortem of that personality was published in the New York Times Magazine by Major H. R. Trevor-Roper, a British intelligence officer who had investigated the Führer's reported death...
...artist destined to remake the world, and as an Attila or Genghis Khan destined to destroy it. Yet in his private life he always remained a drab petty bourgeois, who chose drab Eva Braun for his mistress, and somewhat embarrassedly concealed the fact for 15 years. Wrote Roper: "There is a somewhat macabre contrast between the revolutionary nihil ism of his doctrines . . . and the back ground of coziness and triviality from which they proceeded: teacups and cream buns, cuckoo clocks and Bavarian bric-a-brac...
...brought a great many readers of our overseas editions home from the battlefronts, and so we thought that perhaps returned veterans were largely responsible for the increase. We decided to research the question. Louisville, Ky. was chosen as the test city, and the independent research firm of Elmo Roper went to work for us there, assigning interviewers to question TIME buyers at newsstands all over town...