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...reception - a most courteous ceremony, reserved for distinguished visitors who are theoretically tired and dusty after a long journey. Thereafter, honors and interviews; two weekends with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at his mountain hideaway; inspection of an aviation training school, where a Chinese band ground out The Star-Spangled Banner] a review of 1,000 cadets at China's West Point; talks with the Foreign Minister, the Finance Minister, innumerable experts...
American flags flew in the streets of London last week and in Sydney crowds sang The Star-Spangled Banner. In Rio de Janeiro one Candido Botelho, a baritone, became the star of the Urea Casino floor show when he sang God Bless America in English against a backdrop of U. S. and Brazilian flags, with chorus girls wearing red, white & blue uniforms...
...will doubtless accent for millions the virtues of neighborly compassion. Fundamentally there is just one thing wrong with it. When an organist draws on the full resources of his instrument, as have Messrs. Capra & Riskin in invoking almost every great emotional appeal from the Nativity to The Star Spangled Banner, the largest possible music had better come out. Anything else may topple artistically from sheer pompous top-heaviness. When Capra-Riskin open up the cinema organ in Meet John Doe, what comes out is not solid but uncertain musical structure (in the middle of the picture they even fall back...
...works in a West 53rd Street mansion which once belonged to Financier George Blumenthal. When the troupe first moved in, a red, yellow and purple flag labeled BALLET THEATRE hung from the house. It lasted only 20 minutes. Police, dispatched by St. Thomas Church on the corner, ordered the banner hauled down because it jutted too far over the sidewalk...
Last week, as 1940 corporation earnings reports came out, Wall Street's judgment proved correct on one score: Profits were not keeping pace with production. To steelmakers and railroads, whose heavy capitalizations give them an advantage under the excess-profits tax, 1940 was a banner year (TIME, Feb. 10). But many a consumer industry found it a year of record sales, record costs, record taxes, and only moderate profits...