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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Board of Education's 39-year-old President, Earl De La Warr, and First Commissioner of Works Herwald Ramsbotham (pronounced Ram's Bottom) also landed in each other's chair. Cabinet critics waited to see what sort of stuff this new & bigger job brought out of young De La Warr, who in World War I was a conscientious objector who showed his nerve by serving on a mine sweeper...
...Sitzkrieg, many Frenchmen could not see why Daladier should not be recalled to re-form his Cabinet, again without Socialists, and get on with the unexciting policy urged by nearly all military experts: to strangle the Germans until in desperation they begin to use their stored materials in some sort of action. There were even rumors that in case Parliament got out of hand President Lebrun might call Marshal Petain, now French Ambassador in Madrid, to form a Cabinet. In every recent French crisis the old warrior, strictly nonpolitical, has been thought of as a possible Savior...
They would start a fashion magazine for schoolgirls and young women - a sort of junior Vogue. And they would call it Mademoiselle...
...action of the film, to say things the characters leave unsaid. Briton Arthur Bliss's score for H. G. Wells's Things To Come has had concert performances (TIME, July 17). Some U. S. films, most of them documentary, have owed much to music of this sort. Virgil Thomson, long an expatriate, did wonders with a small orchestra for Pare Lorentz' The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River. Last year Aaron Copland contributed a lean, muscular musical commentary to The City. This year his music for Of Mice and Men was cut closer to Hollywood...
...jute, tin, rubber, fur and whiskey buyers, the new rules made little difference. But for other goods, the de clining free pound was the same sort of mixed blessing as would be a reduction in U. S. tariffs. British custom tailors with clients in New York began calling attention to the availability of fine English woolens. U. S. fabricators, fearing increased imports from Britain, took alarm. The U. S. cotton market jittered as Bombay prices cheapened in relation to domestic ones. Alarmed too were some U. S. exporters who compete with Britons in foreign markets, especially when the British & Latin...