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...party affiliations Their Lordships were as mad as a nest of decrepit hornets, all because the House of Commons had poked them up with a law drafted by the Labor Government to pay more "dole" money to out-of-work Britons. To the house of hereditary loafers such a crack-brained scheme seemed nearly if not quite Bolshevik...
...Preston Sturges, whose Strictly Dishonorable (TIME, Sept. 30) is still a smash hit. In Strictly Dishonorable Playwright Sturges exhibits a talent for writing risque themes and a romanticism as all-pervading as that of Grimm and Hans Andersen. But he is not yet a playwright of stature. He can crack a smart joke, can treat sex with refinement; can also devise such ill-assembled, trivial drama as Recapture, which deals with the efforts of an ex-wife (Ann Andrews) and ex-husband (Melvyn Douglas) to regain the bliss of their honeymoon in its original vicinity near Vichy, France...
...would not be at all surprising to see him combining with Giddens and Wood before the season is much older. Everett is a fast skater, tireless worker, always ready to give and take, a player of the type of Chan Hilliard, the University Club's crack wingman. This forward combination should produce the needed scoring punch and assume the role of a "dynamite line" for the Crimson forces...
...always afford to forget that polo is expensive, have long been in favor of shortening the game from eight chukkers to six. The short game would be cheaper because it would save ponies. A good pony costs from $1,500 to $10,000 and to make a showing in crack company a rider must have a new mount every chukker. The question of six periods was brought up last week but not decided...
James Harold Doolittle, crack Army speed pilot, experimenter in blind flying for the Guggenheim Fund (TIME, Oct. 7), stunter extraordinary (first outside looper), holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross, announced last week his resignation as Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, to become director of aviation for Shell Petroleum Corp. On leave of absence from the Army, Doolittle lately completed a 7,200-mi. roundtrip flight for the city of New York, making a research tour of airports throughout the land. His entry into commercial flying is not abrupt. For ten years has Flyer Doolittle been a 1st Lieutenant, total...