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Said a vice president, mopping his brow: "It's a crisis, but not the really bad one. The bad crisis will come later...
Like any full-time heavyweight thinker, British Philosopher Bertrand Arthur William Russell juggles many kinds of ideas, some sound, and some mere sound. Sifting them apart has kept his critics in a dither for half a century, and may furrow posterity's brow even longer. The Socialist earl, now 79, has taken all knowledge for his sphere and kicked it around like a soccer ball...
Strictly for high brow crap games, this set of dice and roller will mark the recipient as a man of the world, whose fame and fortune are made on the next throw. It can also be given to those who play other games involving dice. The five dice fit into a compartment at the bottom of the roller, and the whole set cost just $3.50 at J. AUGUST'S, in the Square...
Among the best is Cranach's sketch of Philip, Duke of Pomerania, a picture once attributed (along with several other Cranachs) to Albrecht Dürer, one of history's greatest draftsmen. Cranach dramatized details of character that a candid camera might have caught: the fierce brow, the thoughtful squint, the sad, confident mouth...
...return to the good old days. Two-a-day vaudeville was back at the old Palace Theater, and there was resounding applause for Judy Garland, who had brought it there. For 75 minutes on opening night Judy burned up the boards with "electric excitement," paused occasionally to wipe her brow with a bright scarf ("It isn't very ladylike, but it's very necessary"), and sang such old favorites as Somewhere, over the Rainbow and The Trolley Song. One critic predicted the show would stay a year. Wrote Critic Ward Morehouse: "I doubt if there...