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Justice James F. Byrnes, warming up to his new job as head of the Office of War Mobilization, made news pop like a string of firecrackers. At his first press conference-generally a time of exuding good will and generalities-he was ready with four crackling announcements...
...stern critics of the cinema Coney Island will be just one more tin bead on the rope Hollywood never ceases to string. But cinemaddicts who pay to get in will go easier on it; in fact they will go for it. Many cheap baubles have lovely sides in certain lights: this one shines irresistibly in such scenes as a brawl in a Coney harem. Here all the succulent paraphernalia of 1905 eroticism get heaved about in fearful confusion-carved brass hookahs caught in ripped gauze, brocaded draperies from the mysterious East, feathers and chandeliers, pillows of plush and satin, even...
When the critics made up their minds, they had ruled out Roy Harris' "agricultural" Fifth Symphony (TIME, March 8), Aaron Copland's melodramatic Lincoln Portrait, William Schuman's timely but tiresome Prayer-1943, Morton Gould's featherweight Spirituals for String, Choir and Orchestra. The award went to Manhattan-born Paul Creston, 36, for his neat, rather brittle, and relatively old-fashioned First Symphony...
Gypsy Rose Lee (The G-String Murders) bought for $250 a vast, secondhand bed. It will help equip her new 30-room town house in Manhattan. In the White House it was occupied by President Benjamin Harrison...
Broadway's threatened manpower shortage never became acute-even among chorus boys. But the theater lost several first-string critics to the war (the Times's Brooks Atkinson, Herald Tribune's Richard Watts Jr., World-Telegram's John Mason Brown, Sun's Richard Lockridge...