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Panama Pacific's coffin had three big nails in it: Last June, after Congress withdrew all ocean mail subsidies, empowering the Maritime Commission to make a new deal, Panama Pacific lost its annual $450,000 mail subsidy and got nothing in its place. Beginning nine weeks ago, the Panama Canal changed toll charges in such a way that Panama Pacific's annual expenses would have been increased about $37,000. Third coffin nail was a rusty West Coast labor problem...
...London, publishers withdrew the autobiography of a prostitute, To Beg I Am Ashamed, after newspaper columnists, before the book's publication, called it disgraceful, sordid, "the vilest book that has ever left a modern printing press." Smarting, the publishers accused columnists of "a gross breach of privilege" in denouncing a book before it appeared, of exaggerating its sensationalism. Critics, agreeing with the publishers, graded the book honest but dreary...
...general the treaty is to secure against Italian aggression British trade routes and spheres of influence on the Mediterranean and Red Seas, and to secure against British aggression the Italian trade routes and territories in this area, including Ethiopia (see map). The treaty would become operative after Italy withdrew her men from the territory of the Rightist Spaniards; and Britain would undertake to get the Italian Empire recognized by all members of the League of Nations, including Britain...
...vacated. Their pleasure was short-lived, however, since the occupants proceeded to take away the net. The Harvardians protested, but the occupants announced that it was their own net and refused even to consider a 25 cent rental. After a short argumentative game without any net, Wyeth and Everts withdrew...
Early last fall came a parting of the ways. Amicably clashing over policy, Crawford and Strasberg withdrew from the Group, Clurman remained. Cheryl Crawford set up as her own producer, last week made her bow with All the Living. Strasberg became a free lance. Both Crawford and Strasberg represent the vanguard of the U. S. theatre; both have a background of foreign experimentalism. Strasberg, originally influenced by Actor-Director Constantine Stanislavsky of the famed Moscow Art Theatre, favors a naturalistic technique, insists that actors should "do all the small things, not worry about the big things...