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...lily for a hand, a swan's neck. A crucifixion scene by one Samuel Hershey included newshawks, a microphone, a vendor of hot dogs and miniature crucifixes, a few indolent policemen. Independent José de Creeft showed a picador made of stove pipes and scrap iron. Independent Lucienne Bloch, daughter of Composer Ernest Bloch (see p. 48). showed a panel of photographs of the destroyed Rivera-Rockefeller murals. A picture of a clock stopped at 9 o'clock referred to the execution of Sacco & Vanzetti...
...Commercialization of contraceptives has ceased to be clandestine. Stella Bloch Hanau of the Birth Control Review says that in the vicinity of New York alone 300 manufacturers are making contraceptives of one sort or another. Peddlers hawk material on subway platforms. A 1932 survey of western Florida showed that one form of contraceptive was being sold in 376 gasoline stations, garages, restaurants, soda fountains, barber shops, pool rooms, cigar stands, news stands, shoe shine parlors, grocery stores. Slot machines for dispensing exist in several states. Contraceptives are now advertised in such magazines as Outdoor Life, Eagle Magazine, Illustrated Mechanics...
...seven assistants rushed back, gibbering with indignation. Assistant Lucienne Bloch, daughter of Swiss Composer Ernest Bloch, scraped the white paint off two second-story windows to form the words: "Workers Unite," "Help! Protect Rivera M. . . ." Guards stopped her from finishing the word "Murals." By nightfall Communists began to swarm in Rockefeller Plaza, the new thoroughfare cutting through Rockefeller Center. They churned about, cheering for the man whom they had read out of their party four years ago, waving banners "Save Rivera's Painting," marching & countermarching around the RCA Building. Mounted police pranced on the outskirts, shooed them away before...
...small Polish town near Lemberg. hurried excited Jews one day last month. They had heard-as had many a Jew throughout Galicia-of a wonderful thing that was happening at their synagog. Other Poles might call the Galician Jews vulgar and ignorant. But they had a saint, pious Pinchas Bloch. He was even now crouching on the synagog steps. Chanting psalms, clutching his long beard, he was praying God to send the Jewish people a Messiah. Until then, Pinchas Bloch would eat no food, move not from the synagog. The Zlatshev Jews prayed with him. whispering softly, watching and waiting...
...whole atmosphere of Venice, where he had stopped on stones of the same unevenness, and of his early years. In contrast to these reminiscences are the facts of the present. Mme. Verdurin has become the Princess de Guermantes, Gilberte is fat and has a daughter grown up, Bloch is in society, and the Duchess de Guermantes is completely...