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...Advocate is without a doubt heading in the right direction. In last month's issue, the editors attempted to deal with "The Jew at Harvard"; now, in the April issue, they present a pre-and-con discussion of the Club System. Both topics are serious and important ones, and it is a pity that the handling in each case has been so inadequate...
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...helped in this way, who have dedicated their works to her, contains virtually every name in modern music. Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Malipiere, Ravel, Copland, Milhand, Sowerby, Piston, Bartok, Martinu, Hindemith, Harris, Hanson, Prokoileff, and Britten are among the composers who have benefited from her generosity. In fact, at a recent con- cert, her son pointed out that Beethoven was the only man on the program who had not dedicated his composition...
...Hollywood, a sculptor named Yucca Salamunich, after carefully considering the subject of legs, was ready to make a generality: "Yunnhh! Hollywood con nects legs with sex. Legs have beauty for other reasons." Specifically, Salamunich had prepared a list of legs he admires...
Finally, after the deluge, pro and con, calm and hysterical, had spread all over Newman's office, he found out that Schweitzer had printed his and Newman's statements in a pamphlet and mailed thousands of copies of it all over the nation...