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*When a newsman suggested: "Maybe C. I. O. has put on long pants" (i.e., grown up so that it will not go back to A. F. of L.), Frances Perkins cracked: "Do you want to see them sans culottes [pantsless]?"
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony in the world premieres of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, Essay for Orchestra, the first works by a U. S. composer he has played since 1933. Also Paul Graener's The Flute of Sans Souci...
Far down the evolutionary scale of mammals are the marsupials (pouch-bearers). The Western Hemisphere's only pouch-bearer, the opossum, is the lowest marsupial of all. Its young, born after a gestation of about 13 days, are only one-half inch long at birth, without fully-developed hind...
"It is hoped that everyone wishing to live in Hongkew will make friends with the Japanese. Japanese ladies, 150 from the Tokyo High School, well versed in English, are now in Shanghai for the sole purpose of being better acquainted with foreigners. Further details regarding interviews etc. will be furnished...
"Bachelors need not apply. . . . Married men applying for Nei-sans will have to obtain consent of their wives. Foreigners who employ Nei-sans will be entitled to one bath a week in any of the undermentioned Bath Houses in Hongkew* free of charge. Foreign ladies can apply for Japanese male...