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...figuring out what the censor will dislike, but what ordinary Russians will like. Amerika's staff studies Russian newspapers and magazines, checks fan mail received by the embassy and samples reader opinion through State Department staffers in the U.S.S.R. Amerika's Russian readers think Peter Arno's school of humor vulgar and unfunny. Accustomed to treating Stalin & Co. with respect, they never laugh at jokes about U.S. Presidents and Senators. They prefer articles on science, the theater and industry, glimpses of U.S. home life. No. i on Amerika's hit parade: the life of Deanna Durbin...
...mobilize the workers and peasants for socialist construction," Moscow's party line in literature calls for "socialist romanticism." Last week, a Czech newsman and poet named Arno Kraus turned out such an item, made Page One of Prague's Lidove Noviny (People's Newspaper) with...
...theories of Walter Pater. In Florence, he earned a bare living escorting tourists through the galleries until, in 1894, he published his Venetian Painters of the Renaissance, the first of four handy, brilliant guidebooks which netted him enough to buy a lavish 17th Century villa high above the Arno valley...
...optimistic prognostication, the Westminster outfit is still something of an unknown quantity in these parts. In 73 years of Cantab football. Western Maryland and Harvard have never met across a ten table or a football. The cynic of Mr. Peter Arno's cartoon would like to know, along with some other people, why this hoary tradition merits interruption. Actually there are more inter-connections between the two squads than in any ancient ivied rivalry...
After an autumn walk along the Arno in Florence he wrote his Ode to the West Wind; in Pisa The Cloud and To a Skylark...