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Ordinarily, at this time of year, top flight U.S. tennists would be warming up for the Seabright tournament, classic curtain raiser of the Eastern grass-court season. This year, for the first time in half a century, there may be no tournament at Seabright. But Longwood, Rye, Newport and Southampton hope to carry on in their traditional roles as tune-ups for the National at Forest Hills, and with rationing (three for each match) there will be enough balls to last the summer...
...shoes to match. In the paddock, folks got a good look at the King, noted his more than usual good humor. For the first time in the history of British horse racing, the Royal Stables were on the verge of winning all four of England's classic races for three-year-olds...
With these attributes. Cagney manages to suggest George M. Cohan without carbon-copying the classic trouper. He has the Cohan trick of nodding and winking to express approval, the outthrust jaw, stiff-legged stride, bantam dance routines, side-of-the-mouth singing, the air of likable conceit. For the rest, he remains plain Jimmy Cagney. It is a remarkable performance, possibly Cagney's best, and it makes Yankee Doodle a dandy...
...years Alice Hamilton has studied the ill effects of industrial poisons (lead in the paint trades, toluene in TNT plants, carbon monoxide in steel mills, benzol in airplane "dopes"), in 1924 published a modern classic, Industrial Poisons in the U.S. She also engaged in many a bitter fight to force her scientific findings on an indifferent public...
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Cleveland Orchestra conducted ) by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; 8 sides). The first up-to-date recording of this popular classic. But Rodzinski's steely precision makes Mendelssohn's airy fairies march like storm troopers...