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...plea for a flat 15% rate-upping as an emergency revenue measure, it proposed, as a substitute, an increase in carload rates ($3 and $6) to add between $100.000.000 and $125,000,000 per year to carriers' income (TIME, Nov. 2). But the Commission tied a strong string to its proposal: this extra revenue must be pooled and from the pool weak roads which could not pay their bond interest and other fixed charges must receive as outright gifts whatever they needed in cash to escape bankruptcy. Any balance in the pool thereafter might be distributed equitably among...
...Italian, Toscanini almost no German. But they spend a great deal of time gazing at one another in affectionate admiration. When the Philharmonic toured Europe a year ago last spring, Busch attended almost all the concerts. Toscanini has traveled from Switzerland to Milan to hear Busch's famed string quartet...
...Stadium tomorrow afternoon. Never before has a Yale football team concentrated so definitely on the Harvard game. The team has been scrimmaging against a scrub team which wore red jerseys each with the number corresponding to that of the Harvard man who plays that position. In addition, the first string squad has had diagrams of all the Cambridge plays to study, and pictures of the Harvard players, in order to acquaint themselves with every opponent...
...serial attack which functioned so well Saturday will figure heavily in Saturday's Yale contest; at least Coach Casey spent time working on the forward passing drill yesterday. The squads also ran through blocking, tackling, and signal drills, after which the scrubs put on Yale plays for the first string to look over...
...movie-fan magazines it scarcely transcended the unconscious absurdity of the fan magazines themselves. Plainly Publisher Delacorte did not want to be too rough with the industry which supports three of his publications?Film Fun, Screen Romances, Modern Screen?the last the second most successful (after Ballyhoo} of his string of fourteen. Some features of Hullabaloo's first issue...