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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Americans who have been to Moscow in the past decade think of the Aragvi as a sort of Soviet Stork Club. It has a splendid entrance on Soviet Square, a good Georgian orchestra which plays on a balcony, and a Caucasian dancer in traditional warrior uniform. In the big main hall there is an open space for patrons to dance; around the sides are private dining rooms. The best private room is on the upper level, facing the orchestra. (In this room have wined & dined a long list of distinguished and relaxing Amerikantsy running from Harry Hopkins to Wendell Willkie...
Last week LIFE Correspondent Elmer Lower cabled from Rangoon: "Experienced foreign observers here say that the Burmese government has improved its position more during the past year than either they or the Burmans believed possible. With the elimination of the Karens in Toungoo and the Communists in Prome (TIME, June 5), the government's campaign approaches being 75% successful...
...past four years, Reyes and Fonacier have been fighting through the courts the question of who is supreme, and, incidentally, whether the Aglipayans will continue their uncomfortable liaison with Unitarianism or confirm an alliance with the Episcopal Church arranged in 1947. Though Fonacier plans to appeal, the decision of the court in favor of Reyes seems to have placed the 320 churches and 1,000 chapels of the Aglipayan Church within the Episcopalian fold...
...pictures, costing a total of $43 million, pulled in a gross of $94 million-bigger, Fox executives claim, than that of any other major studio in proportion to the number and cost of movies made. This year the studio is spending $45 million on 30 movies. As in the past, each of them, from story conferences to cutting room, will be shaped in large measure-for better or worse-by the taste and imagination of Cinemogul Zanuck...
With such kid-glove finesse, Bucky had a bunch of bushers looking like ballplayers, had them believing they were not as inept as past performance (in the cellar, 47 games out of first place last year) would indicate. At week's end Washington had won 19 of its first 39 games, and was in fifth place...