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Anywhere else, the fog that seeped into noses, ears and throats would have frayed thousands of tempers, but Londoners had long since come to regard a Big Fog as a kind of picnic. Under the cloak of pea-soup anonymity, whistling as they felt their way, strangers walked and talked with strangers in a manner unthinkable in bright daylight...
Ghoulish Sororities. Americans, Author Miller found, were much like their cities. The young men were "mild, bland, pseudo-serious ... as though turned out by a university with the aid of a chain-store cloak and suit house." The middle-aged were "puffy, wattle-faced, [filling] the land with prosperous, restless, empty-headed, idle-handed widows who gang together in ghoulish sororities. . . ." The aged were "horrible living examples of the embalmer...
...fiction writers laid one golden egg after another and sold them for golden prices. The public craved, and was given, gulps of cloak-&-dagger melodrama or sack-suit passion. Some of the year's novelists managed, with the help of book clubs and cinemagnates, to earn a life annuity with a single book. Among the bestsellers...
What the Golden Fleece really was-a cloak tossed to earth by Zeus when he was drunk, or a sheepskin book of alchemic secrets, or the gilded epidermis of a young human sacrifice named Mr. Ram-nobody knows. But Robert Graves is quite sure that, whatever the Golden Fleece was, the voyage of Jason and his Argonauts really happened. His story of "how it really happened" shows the legendary cruise as one of the bawdiest, bloodiest, most boisterous expeditions of all time...
...Edgar Hoover's G-men saved the day is the tense story of The House on 92nd Street. The desperate goings-on centering around an inconspicuous Manhattan brownstone building (run by talented Swedish Actress Signe Hasso) escape the routine of cloak-&-dagger melodrama by their realism...