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...very qualities in MacArthur which once had been most criticized stood him in good stead now. His imperial manner made him, of all Allied commanders, the one best fitted to give orders to an emperor. He presumably would hold himself as aloof from the masses of the enemy as he had from the masses of his own men. In Japan, that would be a good thing...
...recorded three albums -French Art Songs and Songs by Debussy (Victor), Song Recital by Maggie Teyte (Gramophone Shop)-which spread her fame to the U.S. Now Maggie Teyte will see whether her studied musicianship will stand her in as good stead as once her pretty legs and elfish personality did. Says she: "There are many compensations in age . . . for serious music I can even let my hair down...
...World War II almost from its beginning, during the Blitz in London. At home and abroad he worked 20 years for U.S. papers-gathered and wrote just about every kind of news "because I wanted to make myself an all around newsman." That background should stand him in good stead in Russia, where he will have to report not just diplomacy and war but the growth of a whole, new civilization...
...mild Secretary of Agriculture, recommended that the Government with draw its cash support of cotton prices. In place of this political handout, Secretary Wickard proposed a nonpolitical plan to end the lopsided one-crop economy of the South. His proposal: let the Government pay growers a direct subsidy in stead of the present indirect subsidy of the parity system (TIME, Oct. 9), which gives growers "loans" of 20? a lb., at the present parity price...
...Davis thing to do might be just to wait and see, 'stead of Perkins our blustering two-cents' worth in. Well, t'Mroz the day, and Moore than ever our Vohs go to the home team. Svendsentimentalists Trumbull out the records, Berger even money the score reads: Harvard...