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Glamour Magazine has caught up with Carstairs Whiskey in the current issue and passed the punchbowl to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, associate professor of History, as "a man who cares." Sighting along the barrel of a trusty briar, he is pictured "getting the future in focus" in the current issue...
...cartooning is topnotch Disney-and delightful. While playing fast & loose with the well-known personalities of Brer Fox & friends, the animators have kept a faint flavor of the old Frost-Conde-Verbeck illustrations. Perhaps Brer Rabbit's happy romps in the Briar Patch do not look quite as gay and wonderful in 1946 as Joel
Chicago's show, "Drawings Old and New," would have been even more blasphemous to the French perfectionist. On exhibition were a Van Gogh landscape made of a briar patch of angry, tangled pen strokes; a Picasso drawing of two nudes which looked like sacks of coal (and another which might have been a doodle by Raphael); Group of Draped Standing Figures (headless) by British Sculptor Henry Moore; a wildly sketched, toad-faced "Conqueror" hoisting a stein of beer, by Mexican José Clemente Orozco. But even Ingres might have been willing to admit the simplicity and tenderness of Sculptor...
Readers that year were flocking to buy a bucolic novel about the Scottish village of Drumtochty by Ian Maclaren and a nostalgic romance of Paris' Latin Quarter by a British illustrator named George du Maurier. Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush and Trilby became the first "bestsellers" -a new word in the language...
Stomach Abracadabra. The doctor who hung his shingle in the village or rode circuit through the forest was, often as not, a quack. Charms were popular: for convulsions, pour baptismal water over the peony bush; for bedwetting, fried-mouse pie; for a cold, crawl through a double-rooted briar toward the east; for a fever, write "Abracadabra" on a piece of paper and wear it over the stomach. Manufactured charms included "Perkins Patent Tractors" (metal rods to draw out disease) and "Dr. Christie's Galvanic Belt . . . for all nervous diseases...