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...Communist Party and his best friend Jason, ex-poet, drunken, disillusioned hack-writer of sex stories. Celia, niece of Leon's landlady, cast soft but unavailing eyes at him. Leon was heart-whole till, one night at a Party meeting, he met the luscious Helen. Helen thought him cute, and encouraged him, but not seriously: she was living with a Mexican. Leon, blissfully ignorant, worshiped her from afar. In Jason's tenement lived one Hank Austin & family. Hank was a husky, ivory-headed warehouse worker; he made good wages till he was laid off. Then he sat around...
...Spokesman Smith returned to the job of extracting cash for New York tunnels, bridges and causeways, the R. F. C. corridor crackled with excited feminine comment: "Simply grand! What a man! A honey! A peach! And wasn't that little green bow tie cute...
Here, according to billboards, is "Conan Doyle's Immortal Story Masterfully Told." Here, "Masterfully," is Clive Brook at grips with modern gangsters, a Sherlock Holmes in love, a Sherlock Holmes who knows the cute trick of discovering biscuit crumbs on people's waistcoats, who pronounces "elementary" with the grand air, who jumps out of high balconies onto villainous necks, who wields acetylene torches and shoots to kill. This is no Sherlock Holmes, this is Hollywood's "Masterful" attempt to shatter an illusion...
...education. Interviewed last week, Mrs. Sunier declared: "Did I think Bertie would be President? Of course I didn't and I wish they wouldn't call him Herb. . . . There was none of this first day crying for him. No, sir! I remember I thought he was unusually cute. He never looked at me that he didn't smile. Was Bertie particularly bright? No, he wasn't but he paid such close attention...
Last week not one censorious peep came from the nation's reformers when from Bernarr Macfadden's publishing house issued a magazine containing twelve photographic portraits in the nude. The subjects were cute, provocative, but not in the usual Macfadden mode. They were all infants. Announced two months ago (TIME, July 25), Mr. Macfadden's new monthly magazine Babies Just Babies was out, edited by Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt assisted by her daughter Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall...