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...first income to the fund will come from an opening night benefit performance of the Harvard Theater Workshop's production of the "The Tempest," in Brattle Hall...
...Tempest in a Pot. As mayor, Walker soon reduced his onerous new job to an easygoing system. "Walker would rise about 10 o'clock and glance at the headlines," writes Fowler. "After three or four minutes with the big type, Walker . . . would . . . retire again . . . With pillows propped behind his back, he would make telephone calls, and . . . re-examine the newspaper headlines." Around noon he would dress and go out. He got a lot of mail, but, says Fowler, ,he "seldom read any of the thousands of letters sent to him over the years . . . seldom replied to those...
...have to be a sneak to get votes," snapped Jimmy, "then count me out right now." All went as gaily as a magic-carpet ride-until the Crash. In 1931, the New York state legis- lature voted an investigation of charges of corruption in the Walker administration. "A tempest in a pot," said Jimmy...
...tempest enough. Jimmy admitted that as mayor he had accepted a quarter of a million dollars in gifts from a friend. Chief Investigator Judge Samuel Seabury charged that Jimmy had let corruption rot his administration. (At the start of the investigations, Jimmy was caught in a police raid on a gambling casino, escaped arrest by pulling on a waiter's apron and sitting down to a plate of beans in the kitchen.) In September 1932, with Walker's sudden resignation, hearings on the charges came...
...that all TV sets - except Zenith's - were in danger of becoming obsolete (TIME, March 21). Last week, the wind was dying and the dust settling. In a Baltimore speech, FCC Chairman Wayne Coy announced: "I think the question of obsolescence of television receivers is something of a tempest in a teapot . . ." No matter what decision FCC eventually makes about using Ultra High Frequency bands, Coy said, the present twelve channels will continue to be used. Furthermore, until FCC makes its decision, "the radio manufacturing industry cannot know, with any degree of certainty, what kind of receivers to make...