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...seriously. John Shelby (Horace Braham), a young American writer living in Paris, is always on the point of writing something good; meanwhile he complains bitterly of the hackwork he must do to keep himself and his wife (Katherine Alexander) alive in a third-rate hotel room on the Boulevard Montparnasse and to keep his son in an "advanced" school in England, where he is being "cured" of a mother-fixation. The U. S., he declares, is "a spiritual vacuum, a cultural desert." Claire Shelby wants to go back "where her roots are"; more important, she wants to have her child...
There are a Ringling Boulevard and a Main Ringling Boulevard, Ringling Causeway, Ringling Island and Ringling Trust & Savings Bank, but the town is still called Sarasota, Fla. The bank and all the shops were closed last week to honor the latest benefaction of Sarasota's first citizen: the opening of the Junior College and School of Art of the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher and Congressman Herbert Jackson Drane were there to make speeches. Bishop John Monroe Moore gave the benediction of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His moonlike face wreathed in smiles, John...
...sunny afternoon of last June 9, the crowd which swarmed and eddied in & out of the tunnel leading from Chicago's Michigan Boulevard and Randolph Street to the Illinois Central suburban depot, represented a fair cross-section of the human currents passing through any great city...
...Angeles, Frank D. Lovett, 61, drove along a boulevard until halted by a red traffic sign marked STOP. When the green GO sign turned, Lovett's car regained stationary. He was dead...
From a dog's point of view, the long, wide Manhattan boulevard which humans have named Park Avenue and enthusiasts call the world's finest residential street, is not the place it used to be. The change dates about from the time when the policeman at 39th Street berated old Miss Wendel, the recluse who lived with her maiden sisters in the big brick house on Fifth Avenue, for bringing her elderly poodle over to Park Avenue for airings when she had a perfectly good yard of her own in which it could run, sniff...