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...black sleeves, hats with spots that could not be removed . . . Thousands of padlocks put on the market by a factory in Pola can be opened with the same key. Forks produced by the Vjeceslav Holjevac factory in Karlovac were too sharp, but the knives were too blunt . . . The Uzor toy factory in Zagreb manufactured dolls dressed completely in black, while dolls made by the Jadran factory had crooked legs and their arms were of different lengths...
Last week, Chinese Communist newspapers announced almost daily executions. Four former Nationalist officers were sentenced to death in Canton. After the failure of a peasant revolt in Shantung, nine of the ringleaders were executed. In Toy-shan, Kwangtung Province, 165 guerrillas were captured. Chinese Red army headquarters said14,781 bandits had been killed last month in the Kwangsi mountains...
Carrying his $30,000 Stradivarius cello like a toy, the hulking (6 ft. 3½ in.) master lunged onstage, plunked himself into a chair next to the piano. Then he launched into a program of Schumann, Bach, Milhaud, Debussy, Bloch and Ravel. He played them all with masterful technique and taste, though he was at his best when the music called for soaring rhapsody. All in all, he played with the freshness of a man who had taken time out to think things over...
...LONDON, Gian-Carlo Menotti got an opening-night ovation for The Consul, in contrast to the pandemonium of boos and bravos it raised at La Scala (TIME, Feb. 5). Nobody tried to drown out the singers with toy whistles or shouted "Down with America!" Said Menotti: "I still have friends in Britain...
After these "calamitates," Pinoculus runs off to "Toy Land" (Crepundovia), where there are no schools ("Scholae non sunt") and the walls of the houses bear "Down with arithmetic!" slogans and other "flores sententiarum...