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Bosses. For the first time since he was born in a farmer's hut in Oriente Province 36 years ago, full-blooded Fulgencio Batista was without a boss to chafe him. His first boss was a tailor who apprenticed him at the age of 12. Batista now brags that before he quit a year later he could make a suit of clothes himself. Afterward he worked in a grocery store and bar, as a railroad fireman, engineer, conductor. Once he studied to be a barber. In the sugar boom of 1920, Cuba's Dance of the Millions...
...Paris. Artist de Chirico is a realist as well as a surrealist. He ekes out his income with commissions for fashion illustrations, magazine covers. Art-lovers who flocked to a fancy Fifth Avenue address last week to see de Chirico's latest work, found themselves in a tailor shop...
...verified by Mr. Brotsky, who is now in the oil business in New York. Although we are now disappointed that my uncle had to fire Trotsky, we were glad to see that in his picture on the cover of TIME he looked as though he would make a good tailor...
...tailor-made neo-Gothic campus of Washington University (St. Louis) has been buzzing for a month because authorities revoked the scholarships of one undergraduate and two graduate students for distributing circulars urging freshmen not to join the University's voluntary Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit. In most schools benefiting by public land grants under the Morrill Act of 1862, R.O.T.C training for underclassmen is compulsory. Old stuff to most educators are the perennial kicks against it by boys who think either that fighting is wrong or drilling is a bore (TIME, April 6 et ante). New stuff, however...
...Faye is meant to be a personality girl in this picture, but she impresses us as being as pudgy and insipid as ever. The asininities of Ted Healy are a definite detraction; those of Gregory Ratoff, neutral. But Adolphe Menjou in his decay is proving himself more than a tailor's dummy: a genuine comic artist. His rendition of the simple, high-minded inebriate is perfect...