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...when Manager Salmaggi's Baritone Interrante, as president of G.O.A.A.A., showed up for the hearing last week, he sang a softer tune. Dropping his charges that Associated Actors & Artistes had been '"scheming" with the Guild, Baritone Interrante agreed to a face-saving compromise by which the two unions would be merged under the name of the newer and more successful one. The Guild agreed to lower its dues from $25 a year (for voting members) to a sliding scale of from $12 to $100 a year, depending on income, so that G.O.A.A.A. members could all remain...
...softer ironies at which perceptive Nazis squirm became visible last week in Bavaria. Opened by Realmleader Hitler with a 90-minute tirade against post-war esthetics (TIME, July 26), the new, massive House of German Art in Munich drew daily throngs of youths and maidens looking for Strength Through Joy in a collection of conventional paintings by young Nazi discoveries. But for every visitor who paid 50 pfennigs to see what the Führer liked in the way of art, three visitors went down the street a little to see for nothing what the Führer despises. This...
...means of different patented processes, with a substance called methyl methacrylate. This can be molded into lenses, rods, sheets or odd shapes. It is transparent to ultraviolet light as well as to the whole visible spectrum. It is lightweight, slightly flexible, can endure pounding, resists corrosion. It is softer than glass and scratches easily. But it can be repolished to its original brilliancy and translucency...
...miles south the car ferry Chief Wawatan cleared a path of blue water for four freighters, led them across Lake Michigan to Escanaba, returned to the Straits to break ice for a cluster of 38 more. At week's end the wind changed to the south. Through softer ice the freighters Frontenac and Peter White pushed ahead of the others out of Whitefish Bay and crossed Lake Superior to Duluth. They passed the W. D. Rees, eastbound from Superior with the first 1937 grain cargo, 200,000 bu. of rye for Peoria, Ill. distilleries. The Great Lakes shipping season...
...that the rib bones of a prehistoric rhinoceros gave off a mellow sound when struck, assembled a few, built a "bonophone." With the ribs placed on a wooden frame, insulated by strips of rubber and held in position by rubber bands, the bonophone resembles a xylophone, but has a softer, resonant tone. Tuning his instrument by orchestra bells, Preparator Reider likes to play Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing, Chopsticks, America...