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...Setting down in slang the petty thought and emotion of lower-class America, John Weaver's verse, "In America" was a success. His success was partly due to simple spelling (Milt Gross's anagrams are too difficult), but also to his bright reflection of the city-dweller's curious combination of cynicism and sentimentality. The Brooklyn girl of his first novel has not enough of the cynicism to guard her against too much sentimentality, so she flounders miserably through a crush on the high school football hero, a passionate affair with a marine sergeant...
...York Telegram is in the process of creating a Mr. Fixit. It has been suggested by many an apartment dweller that his first duty be the invention of a noiseless...
However, Business School residents are further victimized. It seems that empty radiators have a tendency to transmit sound in an uncanny way and that many an innocent dweller on the fourth floor has been forced to listen in on first floor conversations which, if they do not startle him, are at least distracting. A typewriter creates havoc and it is rumored that radiators have here and there been loosened from the wall by the harangues prolonged into the small hours of the morning...
...William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, decreed that hereafter siren-blowing police escorts would be accorded only U. S. Presidents, kings, queens and-as despatches put it-"others of real distinction." Prince Wilhelm of Sweden was allowed to go quietly, almost unnoticed, through Chicago streets to breakfast at the Cliff Dweller's Club with Julius Rosenwald, John Tinney McCutcheon,* Samuel Insull, Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick...
...process of getting a hen's egg to the breakfast table of an apartment dweller seems scarcely more complex, costly and inevitable. Nevertheless, some businessmen have lately set out to simplify book-buying by having strong, swift Harry Carrier do more work than ever. They have him go almost directly from the house that Jack built to the reader...