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...Robert Redfield, dean of U. of C.'s Division of Social Sciences, is a cultural anthropologist who had the pleasure of discovering, in 1937, a town in Guatemala whose inhabitants had never heard of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Wallis Warfield Windsor, the Dionne Quintuplets. Last week Dr. Redfield declared that the big city pattern, to be thoroughly understood, should be studied in the light of its opposite pole-the primitive tribe-and of intermediate societies such as peasants. Peasants may seem to be primitive in their simple, stable way of life but they have definite urban connections if they...
...again. Most popular were Little Dog Laughed, at the Palladium; Black Velvet, at the Hippodrome; French for Love, at the Criterion, and a revue at the Gate which features cracks about the U. S. profiteering from the war and the recent "stay-out-of-war" speech of Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Well to the right was her sister Katherine, who married Augustus Van Cortlandt Jr., brought her two daughters out at small, correct debuts, and divided her time between her Manhattan town house and her Mt. Kisco, N. Y. estate. Sister Katherine's only publicity: one false Cholly Knickerbocker rumor...
...more than twelve years (since May 21, 1927) Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh has been a U. S. hero. He has been called "super-hero," "the perfection of man," "the Columbus of the Air," the "perfect gentle knight...
...England ever since the Ger man Holbein, the Flemish Van Dyck came to make their everlasting fame & fortune at the British court. For 200 years Eng land has painted most of its own portraits, in good times even manages to export a surplus crop. Such British painters as Augustus John, Simon Elwes, Frank O. Salisbury, the late Anglicized Philip de Laszló have reaped a golden harvest from U. S. tycoons and socialites anxious to show a good face to posterity...