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...about this Brave New World in 1932, Aldous Huxley described the human hatching & conditioning centers, where everyone was taught his place. The highest were a super class of executives known as Alphas, the lowest were Epsilons, or sewer workers, who were taught Ford's memorable words: "History is bunk...
...boat understood Spanish, but they all stared fascinated at the table where the two men sat, meal after meal, fighting it out with high words and bitter tears. Finally the two asked for separate tables and Rivera, shaken by the fury of the quarrel, took to his bunk. Says Siqueiros, "When we reached Veracruz there were two delegations at the pier. One was composed of Rivera's friends, and they took him to Mexico City in style. The other was a delegation of police, and they took me to jail...
...quit high school to play piano and sing in a band in which her father played bass, and Bunk Johnson played cornet. Hollywood has been hearing her in nightclubs for the past five years, but Nellie didn't really begin to catch on until Capitol recorded her He's a Real Gone Guy, Hurry On Down and You Better Watch Yourself, Bub. Her first two records have already sold nearly a million copies. Last week Nellie, now 32, received Broadway's final tribute to a popular singer, Tin Pan Alley's rough equivalent to a Stalin...
...Showers. Seamen's wages are up to ?24 a month minimum now, much more than before the war, when Labor politicians were yelling that the Queen Mary was a palace for the passengers with slave quarters for the crew. Now each seaman has a curtained bunk with a reading lamp of his own. Seamen have their own bar, plenty of shower baths and much more space than before. The big inducement, however, is the Queen Mary's food and the chance to buy in New York...
...looked after "the little things" long before the delegates arrived. Mayors without wives were paired up as roommates according to their habits (i.e., tipplers and late sleepers did not bunk with teetotalers and early risers). Banquet placecards were arranged so that French-speaking and English-speaking delegates did not sit next to one another. Arrangements were made for entertaining wives while delegates were at meetings. Jessica, who has been with the federation since it was founded in 1938, thinks the mayors are a "grand bunch"; she wanted everything to go smoothly...