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Good news for the 17,000,000 U.S. bowlers: starting Nov. 1, bowling rates will be under the thumb of Price Boss Leon Henderson. Ceiling: March (1942) prices...
...More truthfully, it is equality in democratic reverse. The Senate ignored entirely any surtax on luxury spending and the body as a whole once again has declined to levy taxes on State bonds. Large proportions of these incomes find hideaway refuge behind the skirts of the States to thumb their noses at the Federal Treasury...
...reflective survey of William Francis Gibbs's "technological revolution" (TIME, Sept. 28) was, to me, unreflectively marred by a phrase as superficial as a second thumb. . . . "Standing now at the top of his profession, in which, curiously enough, he holds no degree...
...faced the "race problem" at home. Ninety per cent of Britain's citizens had never actually seen or talked to a black-skinned human being before. America's polite, liquid-voiced, smartly uniformed Negro soldiers were a surprise, a pleasure, and a happy opportunity for them to thumb the nose of moral self-righteousness at the U.S. Britain's hospitable small homes were thrown open to white & black alike...
...Harold Rome; produced by the Youth Theater) brought to Broadway a bunch of youngsters who for several years have contrived some amiable side-street shindigs. Their grown-up party is a bust: their high spirits produce silliness; their satire goes sour; their amateurism sticks out like a sore thumb. A topical revue, Let Freedom Sing purveys standing jokes (the WAACs, Washington overcrowding, hoarding, snooty refugees) without giving them a single new twist. Composer Rome's tunes have none of the lilt he put into Pins and Needles and Sing Out the News, and his lyrics have none...