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...Boris, long known as the foxiest monarch in Europe, saw the time had come to shift from a pro-German policy. Even if he had not faced the Führer's fury, the pressures squeezing his throne might have felled any man of weak heart...
Students and Secrets. Lawson is not going around worrying his busy head about students for his Des Moines university. If no others show up, he figures on drawing from the 100,000 officers of the Benefactor Foundation. Foundation board members, incidentally, are secret. Explains Lawson: they often shift. Apparently Lawson does too. His home is nowhere more definite than "near Ann Arbor" or in a Detroit suburb-Ferndale or Royal Oak; his Detroit office staff is expert at evasion...
Suspicious of "professors" in Government jobs, Congress laid down the law (TIME, June 28): hereafter, all OPA price fixers must have had actual business experience. OPA complied last week. A businessman stepped up and a professor stepped down. The big shift...
...Schooler enterprises now: 1) dances seven nights a week at the Aragon; 2) swing shift dances on Friday and Saturday at Casino Gardens (12:30 to 5 a.m.); 3) Shrine Auditorium dances for Negroes about once a month, whenever a big-name Negro band is available; 4) barn-dancing in the Plantation Ballroom, Culver City...
Toolmaker Schooler (now on the graveyard shift, 12:30 to 7:30 a.m., at Douglas Aircraft) inspects his interests until about 11:30 each evening, then drives to his $55-a-week job in a green Buick convertible, cream-trimmed. Most of his factory pay goes into war bonds. Most of his dance-hall profit, says he, goes back into the business (decorating and furnishing Aragon took about $50,000). After splitting his holdings with his wife on a cornmumty property arrangement, Factory Worker Schooler had a 1942 income tax of $8,500. Said he, musing: "Ever since...