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...bottle. In Britain telephone and telegraph are State monopolies and the Chancellor raised their inland rates 15%, left overseas business rates unchanged to favor British trade. Finally Sir John almost doubled the ordinary British postal rates. Armchair London economists quickly figured that all these measures will cost the "average Briton" an extra shilling and sevenpence weekly...
...have not maintained that they have a right to let Dr. Russell's lectures undermine Harvard's morals. Harvard men who want to be corrupted can easily find Earl Russell's books on marriage and morals in Widener Library. But the Corporation sticks to its point that the famous Briton is eminently fitted to lecture on logic and language. If Mr. Dorgan is worried, he might much more profitable train his guns on Philosophy B, which annually indoctrinates more than 200 innocent undergraduates with the dangerous and subversive tenets of Russell's "Introduction to Philosophy...
...modestly to the housewives in terms they understood. "I suppose I am really going to run the biggest shop the world has ever seen - to supply the nation's food. It is a stimulating thought. It strikes the imagination." A slice of bread wasted each day by each Briton, he then explained, equals 30 shiploads of wheat in a year. A teaspoonful of tea for each person "and none for the pot" would save 60 shiploads...
...Mostly they do not know it: Hollywood believes that music should be pure background. The European approach is different: its cinema music is supposed to compel the hearer's attention, to comment on the action of the film, to say things the characters leave unsaid. Briton Arthur Bliss's score for H. G. Wells's Things To Come has had concert performances (TIME, July 17). Some U. S. films, most of them documentary, have owed much to music of this sort. Virgil Thomson, long an expatriate, did wonders with a small orchestra for Pare Lorentz...
Reason for the slide was the news that Britain would tighten her controls over foreign exchange. Late last month her new rules went into effect. No Briton can now export rubber, tin, Scotch whiskey, jute or furs to the U. S. unless he is paid either 1) in dollars, or 2) in sterling bought at the official Norman rate. Since these products are an important share of British ex ports to the U. S., practically dominate the U. S. supply for them, many a U. S. importer had no further use for free sterling, deserted the Black Bourse...