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...Your article on Dr. Kinsey and his work made me furious. The article treats "sex" as something dirty. This is obvious from the insertion of the smutty cartoon by Peter Arno . . . Decent, healthy people, who can enjoy love, regard Dr. Kinsey's work as a serious, scientific study, and do not try to undermine the effects of this work with...
...Authors Arno and Anneliese Peters made no bones about it. Back in 446 B.C., they wrote proletarian heroes were denouncing private property and the democratic state; and by 476 A.D. a splendid fellow named Masdak was proclaiming to his native Persia that "private property is the root of hatred and strife between men . . . the cause of all evil and bad. Communism is applied religion ..." In 1492, of course, Columbus discovered America, but in the Peters book the founding of the Siberian town of Sibir rated as much space...
Last week U.S. authorities at Bonn ruefully admitted that they had not checked into the Peterses' past before assigning them the book in 1950, that they did not realize that Arno Peters was a Communist Party member. To them, he was merely a former journalist who had come with "high endorsements from eminent German educators." John ,O. Riedl, then chief of the education branch, had seen no reason for not approving him. Meanwhile, 1,100 copies of the book had gone out to public reading rooms throughout West Germany, and Peters had run off a large printing...
Writes Humorist A. P. Herbert in the foreword: "[There is] nothing to compare . . . with Peter Arno's famous couple in bed ('Wake up, you mutt. We're getting married today'). The nearest thing to a sexy joke that I can remember seeing in Punch was this: The Mayor of Liverpool, solemnly commemorating and confirming the long association of Liverpool with the River Mersey, threw a gold ring into the river. Punch said: 'Now that Liverpool has been formally wedded to the Mersey, many are saying it is about time that Manchester did the right thing...
...Ogden Pleissner, 47, one of the best-known U.S. realists: The Ramparts, St. Malo and The Arno, both examples of his regard for detail, color and mood...