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Austria's Dr. Karl Renner, the veteran Social Democrat whom Russia had placed in power, last week resigned as Chancellor. The Volkspartei, victorious at the elections (TIME, Dec. 3) was busy organizing a new multi-party Cabinet. The incoming Chancellor, slender, pleasant, subtle, 43, was a man few Austrians knew much about until the Allied victory in Europe. His name: Leopold Figl...
...people, and particularly representing the young men we have overseas, is here begging and pleading with you that you get together." The Government, with the war over, was reluctant to exercise its only positive power-seizure and operation of struck plants. Thus Lew Schwellenbach was left with the slender tools of conciliation and persuasion; at week's end the tools were not doing the job. Labor troubles were breaking down the industrial machine more ominously than they had done since the sitdown strikes...
...this gay crew was Edda's sister-in-law, lovely, slender Countess Maria Magistrati. Maria had a figure to dream of, even if her taste in brocades was atrocious. True, she had thrown herself away on the obscure Counsellor of the Italian Embassy in Berlin, but her cavaliers were many, her conquests for the union of Naziism and Fascism pleasantly won. Over-dieting finally killed...
...Slender, serious Rudolph Dunbar is no musical freshman. He studied at Manhattan's Julliard School, has several times conducted the London Philharmonic. He was in Berlin as correspondent for the Associated Negro Press of Chicago. Shortly before the Berlin Philharmonic's Conductor Leo Borchard was accidentally killed by U.S. sentries (TIME, Sept. 3), he had invited Dunbar to guest-conduct. U.S. occupation authorities were all for it, though their interest was more in teaching the Germans a lesson in racial tolerance than in Dunbar's musicianship...
...prewar armchair strategist (The Defence of Britain) who forecast a "very tame" war and believed in the Maginot Line, came out in the London Daily Mail with a tip on how to tell whether war or peace is in sight: if women's fashions favor wide hips and slender waists (as in the Nineties), everything is O.K. "Curves signify contentment," he said; "the vertical line expresses discontent." He found Paris' trend to high hats and short skirts "obviously danger signs...