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When Sir Walter arrived in Moscow last week the papers called him "Tovarish." Theatergoers stood up to cheer when they saw Trade Union Chief Shvernik steer him into a box to watch a performance of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina...
...significant procession of labor advisers filed into the White House one by one: George Harrison of the Railway Clerks, Philip Murray of C.I.O., Anna Rosenberg of the War Manpower Commission, David B. Robertson of the Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. All four have worked for labor unity...
...Board of Graduate Editors, which will consist of David M. Little '13, former president of the CRIMSON and now Secretary to the University and Master of Adams House; Donald T. Field '31, another former executive now practising law in Boston; Thomas S. Kuhn '44, former Editorial Chairman; and Mrs. Anna S. Hoke, permanent secretary of the CRIMSON...
Alicia Markova is, by practically unanimous consensus, the greatest ballerina . alive. Only the cautious conservatism of ballet's experts keeps her from being hailed unreservedly as a ballerina assoluta, a rank in the choric hierarchy attained in recent generations only by Marie Taglioni and the late great Anna Pavlova. Well above a mime dansante (like Irina Baro-nova), immeasurably superior to a soubrette (Zorina's rating), Alicia Markova has attained to the category danseuse noble, and she may get to be a ballerina assoluta yet. She has a combination of flawless classical technique and an ability to project...
There are glimpses of the amateur statesman Polk conspiring with (and getting double-crossed by) Mexican General Santa Anna, who was supposed to sell out Mexico for $30,000,000. When war came, Polk was all but crushed by his Presidential burdens. Says DeVoto: "Deliberately carrying twin torches through a powder magazine ... he made no preparation for either war. . . . He did not know how to make war or how to lead a people." Result : "Time after time the extemporized organizations broke down. . . . Millions of dollars were wasted, months were lost." But at last "the first modern industrial war somehow . . . succeeded...