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Money for Trotsky. Prisoners examined by Prosecutor Vishinsky last week testified that both before and after Trotsky's expulsion from Russia (TIME, Jan. 1, 1928, et seq.), they have kept him always supplied with enormous sums: one time 20,000 German marks; then 15,000 Sterling pounds; in all a cool $1,000,000. Exile Trotsky, who issued voluminous heated replies to Moscow daily from Mexico City last week, included this: "I state categorically that the only sum I have received from the Soviet Treasury since my banishment from Russia was $2,500. . . . This sum of money was given...
...traditional, polite contempt. But by an interesting coincidence, the proposed visit of the King & Queen of England to Paris this June is being preceded by two unusually large and official shows of English painting. Last month Parisians fought a preliminary bout with their insularity at an exhibition of Caricatures et Mœurs Anglaises, 1750-1850 at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. And last week at the Louvre, in the presence of the entire diplomatic corps and a select audience of French notables, President Albert Lebrun opened the first comprehensive show of English art ever held...
...Human Hearts, In Old Chicago, The Buccaneer, The Adventures of Marco Polo, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Gold Is Where You Find It, Hollywood Hotel, The Goldwyn Follies, Mad About Music, et...
...this year, is caught off form, five more points will be lost. But no one's ever complained about Rusty's form in the pinches. Princeton's free-stylers, on the whole, don't stand much chance of taking first place in any event. Messrs. Hutter, Kendall, Coleman, Barker et al will be much too much too much for them. But, to be conservative, if Princeton takes four firsts and Harvard takes five, the seconds and thirds will play an important part Saturday night. However, Princeton still remains a definite underdog...
...entitled, if sick, to 21 days board and nursing in a semiprivate hospital room, use of maternity delivery room, ordinary X-ray and laboratory examinations, anesthesia. For $18 a year man & wife may get the same accommodation, for $24 a year an entire family (TIME, April 6, 1936, et seq.). From those fees 15% goes for hospitals' charges, 12% for administration expenses of the service, the balance into reserve. During the four years since these hospital services developed subscribers paid $7,681,517 to hospitals. $1,230,000 to administration, banked $1.331,000 in reserve. To lay heads together...