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...Paris, the police have succeeded in driving most brothels underground, but an estimated 20,000 prostitutes are still available to tourists and domestic males. The most expensive (around $20) work the Champs-Elysées, and in a declining order of price and pulchritude come the girls of the Madeleine, the Gare Montparnasse. Place Pigalle and Les Halles. Britain's Street Offenses Act, passed in 1959, has ended the processions of undulating whores that used to fill up Piccadilly Circus, Bayswater Road and Hyde Park. Borrowing a trick from their sisters in Amsterdam, many London prostitutes...
...world was ripe for change. In 1911, the dissident artists formed the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, which, they hoped, would put on an exhibition that would have the same notoriety and success as Paris' Salon des Refusées. As president, they chose Painter Arthur B. Davies. not so much because he had exhibited with the Ashcan School, but because he knew people of wealth and position. The choice had repercussions no one foresaw: while the Henri group wanted to put on a huge exhibition to call attention to "progressive" American art, Davies happened to have...
...President Roosevelt invited me to take a promenade with him this afternoon at three. I arrived at the White House punctually, in afternoon dress and silk hat, as if we were to stroll in the Tuileries Garden or in the Champs Elysées. To my surprise, the President soon joined me in a tramping suit, with knickerbockers and thick boots, and soft felt hat, much worn. Two or three other gentlemen came, and we started off at what seemed to me a breakneck pace, which soon brought us out of the city...
...West Africa and Tanganyika by nearly 10% (to an estimated 5,270,000 carats), leaving De Beers with a temporary surplus, mostly in smaller stones. Chairman Harry Oppenheimer, 54, intends to cut this surplus to size by convincing European men, who seldom give diamond rings to their fiancées, that diamonds are not a gift exclusively for the very rich...
Konrad Adenauer, in his own tongue, has issued the following statement: "Es freut mich sehr Ihnen zum Geburtstag Glueck zu wuenschen," adding, "Ninety is much too young to quit." His Majesty King Gustav Adolf VI, providing for the time lag, writes "God morgon! God afton! God natt! Ingen orsak." And Carl Sandburg, who is only eighty-five, comments that "You have completed your Prairie Years. On to the War Years...