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...West Coast case at the annual minor-league meeting, Clarence ("Pants") Rowland, bellicose Pacific Coast League president, last week shuffled off to Buffalo. There he won support on two main issues: 1) henceforth the Pacific Coast and other AA leagues should get $10,000 (a compromise figure) instead of $7,500 when one of their players is drafted by a major-league club; 2) if & when the major leagues invade minor-league territory, the incumbent minor-league owners should get first crack at the major franchise. Not even energetic Pants Rowland expected the resolutions to be approved at this week...
With robomb speed the news swept feminine Britain-hips will henceforth be streamlined, busts will again be budgetable. By edict of the nine middle-aged men who sit on the Corset Advisory Board, Britain's "austerity" corset (TIME, Aug. 7) has gone the way of the bustle and the hoopskirt. No more will the cotton-and-cardboard stays bulge in the wrong places, snag up in coils where curves should be. There will now be unlimited steel for buckles, hooks,, studs; rubber for suspenders (garters); bone for busks (rigid frontal supports). For foundation and trimmings, there will be lace...
...home, Don Nelson won the enthusiastic approval of his boss. Franklin Roosevelt announced that henceforth Donald Nelson would be his special representative, with Cabinet rank. He would have the right to sit in on Cabinet meetings, could demand any information from any Government bureau...
Nothing can be done to ease the jarring shock of the first reports of casualties to their next of kin. But the Army last week adopted a procedure designed to eliminate the gnawing doubts and anxieties that invariably follow its terse telegrams. Henceforth the telegrams will be followed by full, fast follow-up reports direct from theaters...
...27th anniversary of the Russian Revolution the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs pioneered a new revolution-in style. Henceforth the well-dressed Soviet diplomat will wear a dramatic new uniform. But simplicity is the keynote. A simple, double-breasted suit of midnight black is the foundation. Coat cuffs are four inches, and heavily embroidered with gold acanthus leaves. Gold buttons, gold shoulder boards, and lapels thickly laced with gold galloons provide distinguished color. For dramatic dignity, a ten-inch, ivory-sheathed dagger is worn at the belt, on the left...