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This year S. Hurok has consolidated a near-monopoly on the spins and leaps that bring in the money. As usual he has two ballet troupes, but-because of ballet's tendency to behave like a slap-happy amoeba-the troupes are different this year. In the finely trained Massine ballet are the most glamorous (Tamara Toumanova) and the most technically accomplished (Alexandra Danilova) of ballerinas, as well as three of the fleetest male dancers (Frederic Franklin, Igor Youskevitch, Andre Eglevsky...
...from the $13,000,000,000 tax egg it laid a few weeks ago, is not anxious to start brooding on Social Security taxes. Last week President Roosevelt sent for hot-tempered old Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, mountaineer chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee. Still smarting from the slap in the face that Franklin Roosevelt gave him over the tax bill (TIME, Aug. 11), Muley Doughton jammed his battered black planter's hat down on his bald dome, stumped around to the White House...
...other two changes deal directly with the number of courses required of a man wishing to streamline his road to the magical sheepskin. Whereas University Hall used to slap on an extra course for the privilege, it now declares that not only will a man take the same number of courses as the four-year student, but he will shift one course to the Summer School season. This means taking 14 in three College years, and one in Summer School, instead of 16 in all, as formerly required...
...traverse the city but are thrown to and fro by the A.A. fire which is now thundering out, and spitting forth glowing streamers of tracer bullets. We put on our steel helmets and take as much cover as possible for showers of shrapnel fall, fragments of steel cutting slap through the slate roof and tearing off hunks of stone from the walls. The house seems to lift off its foundations as a nearby gun opens fire...
...Japan's already well-spanked bottom President Roosevelt gave one more mild slap. He upped the tariff 50% on canned crabmeat, of which the U.S. bought $3,269,000 worth from Japan last year...