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When the new tax rates were announced (TIME, April 14) telephone operators and chauffeurs took comfort in the knowledge that a tycoon's income of $274,000 would shrink to $20,000. Until last week they had not realized that a married man earning $18 a week would pay $1.40 weekly tax, that an office boy earning $10 a week would have to fork over...
...gestures and faces Kaye makes are enough to win him a niche in comic pantomime; they shrink to nothing compared with his whirlwind patter, his miraculous doubletalk. Even as he enacted Melody in Four F (written for him by his wife, Sylvia Fine, and Max Liebman), first-nighters suspected that they were seeing the birth of another such theater classic as Robert Benchley's Treasurer's Report, Joe Cook's Four Hawaiians...
...this record Scripps-Howard's astute Columnist Raymond Clapper found little to praise. "So far as the British are concerned," said he, "ours still is a popgun arsenal." Of the President's report, Clapper wrote: "The figures ... are large. In terms of deliveries they shrink like a pair of wool socks in the laundry. . . . For a time, 25% of the eggs we sent arrived in England unfit to eat. . . . Children are not receiving the milk their bodies need. . . . Shipments to the British Empire in July of last year were . . . more than those of July this year...
Already it has a conspicuous subtitle, Beauty & Health. Odds are the old title will shrink and the subtitle grow to take its place...
...cent drop in last year's enrollment and place the total around the 7,000 mark. The Law School, which registered last Monday, is expected to suffer the greatest loss of any branch of the University--with last year's figure of 1,248 predicted to shrink...