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...sturdy, tough-looking Italian, Nino Bibbia, whose father runs a fruit& -vegetable shop in St. Moritz. Nino lay down on the iron framework of his toboggan, crash helmet in place, and shoved off. His "skeleton" (as Alpine tobogganers call their steel-runnered sleds) slithered dangerously down the famous ice chute, whose turns have sporty names like Scylla, Charybdis and Battledore...
...playing piano in the city's brass-spittooned bars, sometimes for drinks, sometimes for money. Gradually, he evolved his rolling bass, and taught what he knew to two young friends. Soon fans were flocking to hear Meade Lux Lewis and Albert Ammons play. But while they made boogie famous, Jimmy remained behind in his two-room flat which shuddered when the trains went...
Over all the flaws ran Goldovsky's insistent misinterpretation of the Giovanni role. Through devices of exaggeration and misrepresentation the Don was painted progressively blacker and blacker. In the famous anti-climactical finale Goldovsky had two of his singers draw the curtains behind them as they warned the audience of the effects of sin, thus putting the last film of farce on what should have been a tragedy-on a performance that was petty and cute and exaggerated instead of majestic and underlyingly serious...
Carle C. Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology, yesterday branded the new-famous Kinsey report on "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" as one more step towards "the disruption of the American family system...
From that time until some one hundred and twenty years later, when Will K. Jordan took over as president of Radcliffe, Fay House was dominated by its womenfolk. For three years in the 1830's the daughters of Daniel Davis made Castle Corners, as it was called, famous for its hospitality. Then in 1835, Judge Samuel Fay bought the place, and for the next fifty years his wife and then his daughter entertained the Cambridge intelligentsia there. On one occasion, it is reputed that Maria Fay had Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and William James in her kitchen at the same...