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...name is E. E. (for Edward Estlin) Cummings, and he is probably America's most respected lyric poet, though his ver bal and typographical high jinks have often rattled critics as well as typesetters...
...daily court life. But everything was written in a private shorthand of hieroglyphic complexity, e.g., "N.a. j. et. d. sa. sal. de bil une Ba; il. dde au Gm. sil sa. ce. q. c'e. C'une ma. de G. il d. dab. q. cest un bal. p. ses enf. Est ce p. ser. a desc. sur un remp...
Born. To Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 24, only child of Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco, and Cristóbal Martinez Bordiu Ortega y Bascarán, Marques de Villaverde, 29; their first child, a daughter. Name: Carmen. Weight...
Says Picabia, who has been concentrating on dots in his Paris studio since last fall: "Ideas are like shirts. They get dirty after a while and then you have to change them." Toward serious art, he was as irreverent as ever: "I'd rather go to the Bal Tabarin than visit an art gallery. I'd rather have a seat in the Comedie-Fran-gaise than a seat in the Academe des Beaux-Arts...
...waterfront sector of St. Pauli, dozens of nightclubs stretch along a half-mile of neon lights on the Reeperbahn. Seamen of all nations dance with heavily rouged "animation ladies," and pay Stork Club prices for flaccid German champagne. The rule at the Bal Paradox is that the women ask the men to dance. In Hamburg's railroad station is the Treffpunkt agency: for 25 marks ($5.95) a man can leaf through a photo album, select a girl, arrange a date. Says proud Treffpunkt Manager Max Pollack: "All my girls are high-class, and you'd be surprised...