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...close a concert in Rosario, Argentina, Violinist Mischa Elman played as an encore his own composition "Tango." Wildly the audience demanded to hear it again. Elman declined to repeat, played instead a dozen different encores. Exhausted, he bowed his way off the stage. Up over the footlights and into Elrnan's dressing room swarmed the insistent audience. Seizing the violinist, they dragged him back on the stage, pleaded until he repeated "Tango...
Because France has won the last four races, one of her sons is confidently expected to repeat this year. Chief French hopes are Georges Speicher, last year's winner who has enough spare breath during the race for a steady stream of quips and japes; Roger Lapébie. bashful young Bordelais who won seven major events in 1933; Antonin Magne, laconic Auvergnat farmer who is called "The eternal runner-up''; Charles Pélissier, cameo-profiled idol of schoolboys. Dashing, excitable captain of this year's French team, Pelissier has won important races...
...seems beside the point and decidedly counter to TIME'S aims and standing ... to repeat and enlarge on a thing like this-"Thaw Perennial" [TIME, June 18]-when so many more interesting and profitable incidents are passed over or forgotten entirely. Why-oh why-should decent people be reminded continually of this shameful affair...
...many boy-&-girl hoboes are wandering the U. S. today Author Minehan does not attempt to estimate. The overwhelming majority of the 500-odd cases he collected left home because of hard times. They travel in small gangs, repeat the same routes, rarely get more than 500 miles from their starting place. The girls are sometimes on their own, oftener are common to the gang or temporarily faithful to one boy. For their living they depend on panhandling, petty thievery, breadlines...
Business Prophecy. There are two fundamental ways of looking at the future of business: 1) it is all a matter of chance; 2) what has happened is apt to recur. Economist Irving Fisher of Yale, an advocate of prophecy in business, contends that prosperity and depression repeat with mathematical regularity. Against this contention argued Mathematician Edwin Bidwell Wilson of Harvard. "An economist can find periods in anything if he uses the right system. But those periods would be but figments of the imagination." To prove his point Professor Wilson showed that an array of business statistics which displayed periodicity also...