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Hemenway Gymnasium, built more than 50 years ago has become rapidly obsolete in the last few years and freshmen, entering the building for the first time when they take physical exams marvel at its antiquity. Pictures of Harvard strong men adorn the entrance hall and innumerable machines for producing gigantic biceps are scattered throughout the building , all in dreary and regular monotony...
From worrying about banks, Detroiters had last week turned to fighting about art. Last year Edsel Ford gave the money for a set of frescoes on Detroit industries, to adorn the walls of an Italianate garden court in Detroit's Institute of Arts. Director Wilhelm R. Valentiner gave the job to the new world's foremost muralist, robustious Diego Rivera, who came and swabbed for eight months, losing 125 Ib. (from 310) the while.* Last month for the first time Detroiters were let into the court whose plain white panels had been covered with Rivera's brilliant...
...Precisely the same power that Mussolini exercised after his March on Rome!" chirped cheeky Adolf. (One scowling bust of Il Duce, two portraits of Frederick the Great adorn Herr Hitler's office...
Surly Roman stonemasons spent the week in "dressing" with colossal fig leaves 70 nude statues of young men, each in an athletic attitude and all some 25 ft. tall. Pope Pius XI was said by Fascist officials to have suggested the fig leaves, since the 70 virile statues adorn the upper rim of a new Roman Stadium which will be used not only by Italian sportsmen but also by Italian sportswomen. To open the stadium on Italy's Armistice Day last week, Il Duce approached with quick strides a monstrous object 55 ft. tall, swathed in bunting and sprouting...
...first act was to clean up the paper. Still blatantly sensational, the Graphic no longer flaunts sexy news stories and headlines. Reports of extra-marital philandering, except as matters of court record, are eschewed. Forbidden are headlines not definitely substantiated by stories. Near-nudes which used to adorn the front page of the Saturday gravure have been supplanted by chaste heads-&-shoulders-in a recent issue those of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Composographs (faked pictures) are permanently outlawed. Photographs of dead bodies must not be "horrible." Fiction serials are still as sexy as those of the average tabloid. Sample title...