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...Jack Morgan never forgot his ambition, was often observed prowling around yachts. Last month he had a singular stroke of luck. Living aboard his trim 58-ft. schooner yacht Aafje in San Pedro harbor was a lighthearted, thin-haired sportsman named Dwight L. Faulding. The owner of a Santa Barbara photo shop and hotel, Dwight Faulding was once rich and foolish enough to have bought a plane which he took up without a single flying lesson, crashed spang into a Santa Barbara street...
This indisputable fact has lately achieved singular importance in Washington, for a flood of new construction might help stem the ebbing business tide, a notion which also occurred to Herbert Hoover in 1929. What President Roosevelt now proposed was to end the New Deal's power advance-provided the private powermen would accept his theories of rate-making. Since utilities are usually monopolistic, it is universally accepted that for the best public interest their rates should be established and regulated by law. The general theory is that rates should be only high enough to yield enough profit to attract...
...Cradle Will Rock is an artistically and politically radical opera which has been in rehearsal two months. Because it had been written by talented composer Marc Blitzstein, directed by prodigious, 22-year-old Orson Welles and mounted with singular care and beauty, 18,000 people had bought tickets for the performances supposed to begin last week. When at the last minute the Federal Theatre cut down on its activity by postponing all openings beyond July 1, liberals like Archibald MacLeish, Sidney Howard, Lewis Mumford begged the Administration to make an exception for The Cradle Will Rock...
Kill Chiang? It was singular that Nanking-censored dispatches should carry reports that the Dictator's wife, Mme Chiang, was out of sympathy with the manner in which her brother-in-law, Acting Premier Kung, was handling the situation last week. He sent thousands of troops hurrying to attempt to encircle Sian, and he claimed there was extreme need of haste because Chinese Communist troops were dusting down from the interior toward Sian. The trouble with such Communists is that they are un-Chinese in important respects. If they ever laid hands on the Dictator, whose troops have killed...
True, it would be nice to have such a uniform athletic policy around here, but if it can only be obtained by a letting down of our own standards, it is hardly worth the candle. One would need a singular degree of optimism to expect all the gentlemen around us, now the proud possessors of the best football teams that money can buy, immediately to metamorphose into little angels. Virtue will, in all probability, continue to be its own reward...