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...since April 1, were solidly behind him. Nor were they particularly dismayed at being out of work. They had had a wonderful winter and they were well off-temporarily, at least. In West Frankfort, Ill., near the world's largest mine, they stood three deep around the Egypt Café bar; miners' wives paraded into Pollock's Electrical Appliance Co. to order washers and refrigerators. The West Frankfort bank was fairly bursting with miners' deposits. Telephone installations were at an all-time peak and the "42" Cab Co. was doing a record business. Illinois miners...
...staking area, has become a throbbing, roistering place of 3.000 people, quick riches, hard living, crudity and fun. Said one amazed visitor: "Just like a movie set, only more so." The restaurants have a frontier ring to their names: Lil's Place, the Wildcat Café, Ruth's Roving Hornet. The one movie house shows three-year-old films. The traditions of the "mushers" of the dog sleds are carried on by the "cat skinners" who drive the caterpillar trains (tractors and sleds) which bring supplies across the snow from Edmonton. Passenger service to & from Yellowknife, as well...
...chasing April out of Paris' sidewalk cafés last week. And to certify, for the 15 8th year, that spring had really arrived, the Salon opened in Paris' Palais de New York (the erstwhile Palais de Tokyo). It was the usual grab-bag of more and less competent academicians which gallery-goers had learned to expect...
...corkscrew body, a nose like a golf tee and spindly legs somewhat less hairy than those of Popeye's Alice, the Goon. As leader of the syphilitic saboteurs, he is Mayor of Chancretown, whose civic anthem is Down by the Old Blood Stream. At the Royal Gorge Café (where the population doubles hourly), his constituents sing...
...decade before World War I, a few wild young men with paint under their fingernails were planting the weird orchards of modern art. Their shabby Latin Quarter ateliers held the first green fruits of freedom. The sidewalk cafés of Paris rocked and rang with their back-slapping and boasting. Les Fauves, "the wild beasts" and their far-from-tame friends had taken over-Matisse, Braque, Derain, Duchamp, Rouault, and Picasso in command...