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...commentators' voices-too often as soapy and unctuous as the average in such assignments. There is a good deal of unfortunate, hackneyed talk about someone called John Q. Public. And in a closing shot of the two halves of the world, the Eastern Hemisphere (described as "slave") is shown being totally eclipsed by the Western Hemisphere ("free"). This appalling boner is strongly counteracted by the film as a whole, but could be seriously misleading...
Died. William Andrew Johnson, 87, onetime slave of President Andrew Johnson; in Knoxville. In 1937 he chatted with Franklin Roosevelt about the Emancipator's successor, received an FDR-initialed silver-headed cane to take back to his pastry kitchen...
Friday Evening May 14 Overture to "Mignon" "The Ride of the Valkyrion" Gorshwinian, Fantasy on Gershwin Melodies Saturday Evening, May 15 "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (After a Ballad of Goethe) "Marche Slave" Fantasia" Aida" Salute to Our Fighting Forces Arranged by Halls of Montezuma-Semper Army Air Corps-Anchors As the Caissons Go Rolling Along God Bless America Sunday Evening, May 16 Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3 Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 Streets of Pekin (Chinese Impressions...
...Spokane. President Johnston's thesis: full employment is absolutely necessary if the peace is to be won. On this haunting subject the businessmen ranged from agreement with Johnston to approval of the Los Angeles Chamber's Frank P. Doherty: "Full employment is possible only in a slave state." But most of them were willing to let Johnston do their phrasemaking, to let him stage a somewhat synthetic "unity with agriculture and labor" convention...
...life elsewhere. The New York Times's correspondent, G. E. R. Gedye, found, in 1940, that Russians were really unable to differentiate between the regions of the outside world. For many Russians the word Zagranitza (beyond the frontier) had an astronomical connotation of outer space, largely populated by slave workers and silk-hatted capitalists that no simple Russian could hope to understand...