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...Louis a similar plan was adopted, but St. Louis' worries pale in comparison with Philadelphia's. When the Symphony moved into the new St. Louis Municipal Auditorium last autumn, attendance increased 50% over the previous season. By last week all but 10% of next season's subscriptions had been sold...
Despite the prospect of a decline in industrial production over the next few months-a prediction in which most observers concurred with the Annalist-business sentiment last week was positively joyful in comparison with the heavy gloom of late winter (TIME, March 25). Fact is, businessmen for once are willing to admit that trade can be good without getting better. Even G. O. Pundit Mark Sullivan, noting the impressive volume of corporate refundings, declared last week: "The result is that the aorta between capital and industry has begun to function. Because the reservoirs of capital are teeming, this flow, with...
Allied propaganda. To U. S. citizens who remember the mighty machinations of George Creel's Committee on Public Information, the Allied propaganda may seem pale in comparison. But it was all pervasive and continuous, and it dated from before the War. The U. S. was used to considering London "not only the cultural and social capital of our wealthier and more influential classes; so far as European events were concerned it was our newspaper capital as well." And, though such tall stories as the famed German "corpse-factory" were pure fabrications, the mass of Allied propaganda carried the weight...
After the Jayvee race in which the Tiger seconds, who were thought to be almost as good as their Varsity mates, had been defeated by two and a half lengths, sudden hope for the Compton Cup ran high. This was accentuated since a comparison of the times showed that the Crimson yearlings had one 3 2-5 seconds better than the Nassau second Varsity...
Although Coach Hodder's lineup is probably only temporary, since rain has prevented any serious golf, or a comparison of the candidates during the past week, three veterans headed by Captain William E. Sibley, III '35 and three newcomers will compose the starting combination. Those to face the Green are Robert C. Hunter, Jr. '36, William E. Sibley, III '35, George E. Enos '37, Mansfield Branigan '36, David H. Sears '36, and Charles S. Bellows...