The New York State Board of Education gravely ruled last week that educational allotments under the G.I. Bill of Rights could be spent for courses in "social dancing" ($5 an hour) at Arthur Murray's Manhattan studios.
Arthur Murray will welcome G.I.s, but they will be only a minor item in the ambitious expansion program with which he hopes to dance into the ranks of Big Business. He has incorporated his $12,000,000-a-year enterprise, is readying a $10,000,000 public stock issue to raise capital to open 50 new studios in the U.S. and abroad.
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