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Rattle of a Simple Man, by Charles Dyer. Percy is a Manchester clerk who has been almost immunized against sex by devotion to "moovies," to darts with the "jolly laads," to everlasting "wurrrk," and most of all to "Mum." But a beery night's fling in London puts him within communicable range of the dread disease. Cyrenne is a nightclub tart with eyes as impersonal as jelly beans, and a tendency to strip to a small black egg-cup bra in the twinkling of a false eyelash. The question of the evening: Will the parochial bumpkin, who admits...
...three events added in the spring are the javelin and discuss throws and the hop, step and jump. In his wildest dreams no Ivy League coach would dare hope for the strength Harvard has in the javelin. Hobie Armstrong, Hank Hatch, Tom Holcombe, and Peter Lamp all consistently fling the spear over 200 ft., with sophomore Lamp holding the University record of 212 ft., 6 in. The Crimson is not as strong in the discus, but McCurdy can count on quite a few points from John Bakkensen who set a freshman record in that event last year. Hobie Armstrong will...
Anshutz' greatest strength as a teacher was his belief that in painting "any style is correct if the man is master of it." Anshutz himself mastered several styles and mediums. Besides oils, he was at home with watercolors, pastels and crayon. He even had one brief fling with impressionism. So equipped, Anshutz could recognize important tendencies and strengths in his pupils, then draw these out and enlarge them. Four of his pupils were Robert Henri. George Luks, William Glackens and John Sloan, all destined to become city realists who dramatized the piercingly lonely everyday life of New York...
Papa in real life was the papa of an old-time cinemama, Corinne Griffith, who wrote a book about him back in 1952. As the film describes it, life with Papa is one damn fling after another. Not that Papa is a drunk. But he is almost always in a "delicate condition,'' and when he is in a delicate condition he is apt to do any tomfool thing that happens to cross his mind. One morning, sick of looking at a neighbor's purple house, Papa grabs a ladder and-splat! the neighbor's house...
...competition for markets bids fair to be a more fruitful cause of war than was ever in the past the ambition of princes or the bigotry of priests. The peoples of Europe fling themselves, like hungry beasts of prey, on every yet unexploited quarter of the world... But always while they divide the spoil, they watch one another with a jealous eye; and sooner or later, when there is nothing left to divide, they will fall upon one another. That is the real meaning of your armaments; you must devour or be devoured. And it is precisely these trade relations...