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...million. Nobody knows whether the cinema is a good or a bad influence. But most people agree that it is an influence of some sort. To probe the delicate question of just what sort of influence the cinema is or might be was one of the ticklish tasks tackled last week by the annual Institute of Human Relations at Williamstown, Mass...
...Government employes occupy a more ticklish position than the seven members of the Federal Communications Commission, whose weightiest duty is to assign air channels and regulate their use by U. S. broadcasters. Last week President Roosevelt did to the Commission just twice as much as he had just done to the Supreme Court. He took advantage of two vacancies to appoint two new members who will bring it more into line with his own ideas...
...twice before been Premier, Camille Chautemps. Names notwithstanding, the Radical Socialists are more conservative than the Socialists in France, and thus the selection of Middle-of-the-Roader Chautemps meant a shift toward the Centre and away from the Communists. To form a Cabinet on this basis was ticklish work this week. Premier-Designate Chautemps, who had been Minister of State under Premier Blum, not only asked Deputy Blum to become Minister of State in his attempted Cabinet but observed to reporters: "I have just been talking to M. Blum, my predecessor and perhaps my successor!" Down...
...skill and success with which the ticklish job was launched lent a blush of color to the proposed Moscow-San Francisco airline. The route is by far the most direct (6,050 mi. against the present 11,000), involves stops at Archangel. Franz Josef Land, the Pole and the mouth of the Athabaska River in Alaska. Of greater value, however, are likely to be the expedition's magnetic observations, investigations of the direction and speed of ice-drifts, depths of the polar ocean, chemical and physical properties of different strata of water...
Nobody denies that the French know how to cook. And when it comes to turning the raw material of life into a souffle of light literature, the French are there again. For U. S. readers with ticklish palates, books like The Scandals of Clochemerle will prove an agreeable morsel...