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...Smartest users of music to make political points are the Almanac Singers, four young men who roam around the country in a $150 Buick and fight the class war with ballads and guitars. Their recorded collection Songs for John Doe, ably hewed to the then Moscow line, neatly phonograph-needled J. P. Morgan, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and particularly war (TIME, June 16). The three discs of Talking Union, on sale last week under the Keynote label, lay off the isolationist business now that the Russians are laying it on the Germans...
Shanghai last week was no longer a city of easygoing riches and casual luxury. The Cathay, the smartest hotel on the Bund, into which Sir Victor Sassoon sank some of his Indian millions, was reduced to rationing its guests to two bath towels a week. Outside the Settlement, the Japanese guarded barbed-wire barricades, strong-armed any passer-by who they felt might be a Chinese "terrorist...
...most popular, but by all odds the smartest of the lot is a song satirizing superannuated officers of Britain's Home Guard, which brilliantined Bard Noel Coward wrote and has been plugging since his return from the U.S. Title: Could You Please Oblige Us With a Bren...
...Bright Tournament, the first major grass-court tournament of the season. Bobby felt fine this year. His weight was up five pounds (to 140) and he had found out how to relax in the middle of a match without lowering his game. Tennis fans consider him the smartest, nearest thing to a veteran in the present crop of headliners. He doesn't hit very hard, but he hits for the openings. He has a fine, quick wrist that enables him to mask the direction of a shot until the last moment...
...goes to war in the Pacific, her first defensive problem will be the Philippines. What happens there depends mightily on President Manuel Luis Quezon, volcanic, theatrical, temperamental, ambitious politico of 62 crowded years, called the smartest politician in Asia, whom even tuberculosis cannot keep in bed when he gets excited about something. And last week President Quezon finally placed himself on record for the first time about where he stands on World...