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...more than Berlin or Rome does Moscow set the World's style for what the well-dressed Government will wear. Yet Russia has caused more conflicting political-fashion reports than any other country in the world. Patterns brought back from the Red Style Centre by contemptuous or delighted buyers have differed hugely; most seemed to have been cut on the bias. Superimposed or pieced together, however ingeniously, they made little better than a crazy quilt. But last week appeared a pattern of the U.S.S.R. that was no piecemeal snippet but cut out of whole cloth. As all political tailors...
...amount of light that falls on it. A beam of electrons shot from a cathode tube and controlled by rapidly oscillating magnetic fields weaves back & forth across the sheet of mica 6,000 times per second. The beam discharges the electropositive tension in the dots, and the changing pattern of this discharge modulates a current passing through the sheet. The modulated current, fed into a radio transmitter, furnishes the control in the receiving set for another electron beam which recreates the image on a fluorescent screen...
...tailors sedulously cut their patterns after the models of Bond Street. Even more slavishly does Fleet Street ape the pattern of U. S. journalism.. Last week on British news stalls were displayed not one but two new magazines, frankly plagiarizing TIME...
Sylvia Sydney comes out of her listless emotions long enough to give a fine performance in "Mary Burns, Fugitive". The title sounds ridiculously like a dime novel and the story follows that pattern but it is well worth seeing anyway if you like gangsters and strong-minded hero-explorers. Sylvia is much better looking with her hair fixed and Melvyn Douglas is excellent as the man whom she would like to marry if she could but can't because she has been in jail. They marry anyhow...
...companies have already done, what many companies will probably do, was Bethlehem's move. Utility holding companies have been madly unscrambling for months. U. S. Steel's merger of its two biggest subsidiaries as Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. last autumn was part of the same pattern. How much he U. S. corporate structure will be simplified before the trend is done no man can say, though one thing is clear: simplification is what the Administration wants and what it is getting...