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Last week the world's biggest dance hall opened in Manhattan and thousands of the jitterbug youth of the Melting Pot jounced, flung and stomped themselves into possession of it. The hall was Manhattan's famous Madison Square Garden, turned into a summer Dance Carnival at a cost of $100,000 by Showman Monte Proser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Jitterbughouse | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

Result of this paint-pot parade is the best Technicolor job out of Hollywood to date. But paint is no substitute for dramatic action. Out of the tiresome rhetoric, the pretty posturing of Blood and Sand only the bullfight scenes stand out. One of them is magnificent: a little Mexican boy named Jesús Angel, clad in a breech clout, armed solely with a white horse blanket, hazing a big black bull around a practice plaza de toros in the moonlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 9, 1941 | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

Across the street, in an old red sandstone building, the American Peace Mobilization had its office. Some crusaders sat around a table holding a water cooler, sandwiches, a coffee pot and a row of empty milk bottles. Other crusaders played cards while waiting their turn on the picket line. On the wall was a picture of President Roosevelt, smiling as he signed the Lend-Lease Bill. Underneath was printed: "What's the joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pickets Picketed | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...system, with considerable success. It is simply a matter of filling in some of the deficiencies caused by recent budget cuts with governments funds--a policy which, while in a sense justifiable, seems contrary to the administration's declared plans. And P.B.H. must once again wait for the pot-of-gold which has long been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Bonus For Brooks House | 5/21/1941 | See Source »

...play bank with was forecast last week when Harrison Williams' North American Co. bowed to the Holding Company Act death sentence, announced plans to sell out all its utility holdings and use the proceeds to go into the investment business. This will make far & away the largest pot of capital in the U.S. unregulated by anything except SEC's truth-insecurities and anti-manipulation acts. It will leave North American 18 times as much capital as potent Morgan Stanley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: North American Bows | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

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