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After thus tripling the size of his Army sub-cabinet, Franklin Roosevelt went to work on his top-rank fighting men, sent over a list of ten new major generals, 39 new brigadiers. Once confirmed, the list will give the Army a total of 363 general officers on the active list. When World War I began, the Army had only 35 active-list generals. When World War II began, the Army...
...Europe, professional tennis tournaments are outstanding sport events. But not in the U. S. The majority of U. S. tennis pros are teaching pros. For their $15-a-year dues to the Professional Lawn Tennis Association they get little except a chance to be trounced by top-rank exhibition pros in the annual championship tournament. U. S. fans look with lacklustre eye on the national professional tournament because the top-rank exhibition pros, razor-keen after a season of barnstorming, always breeze through to the final-and watching the exhibitionists play a match is like watching the exhibitionists play...
Most notable feature of the school: a special class for conductors from which the Director hopes to turn out five top-rank maestros in five years. Long convinced that a conductor should handle himself as featly as his orchestra, Koussevitzky hired Manhattan Ballet Master Erick Hawkins, partner of famed U. S. Dancer Martha Graham, to teach his pupils podium gestures. Soon Teacher Hawkins had the pupil conductors pirouetting and posturing, trying to become as expressive as dancers. Some of them took it seriously, some were embarrassed. Grumbled one: "Makes a fellow feel selfconscious...
Haydn: Symphony No. 92 in G Major (Paris Conservatory Orchestra, Bruno Walter conducting; Victor: 6 sides). Before Hitler's Blitzkrieg, France had one top-rank symphony: the Paris Conservatory Orchestra. Haydn's lacy melodies suit its light-stepping strings and wood winds...
...bolster up Wang prestige, Japanese army bigwigs in China who operate the puppet strings have been demanding that a top-rank Japanese statesman be sent as Tokyo's first Ambassador to the new Nanking puppet show. This week General Nobuyuki Abe, Premier of Japan until last January, was named Special Envoy and Ambassador Plenipotentiary by the Son of Heaven...