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Indian headdress (see cut). This is the third time in three months that the ambitious "Little Flower" has got out into the hinterland to let the people see what he looks and sounds like...
Bitter but sensitive and attractive foliage, Poet Holden's 77 new lyrics are written in a choosy, pressed-flower language that ensures entrance into many poetical anthologies, few human lives. But in spite of Natural History's, painstakingly sterilized language, the book has several narrow escapes-as in The Linden Boughs Are Bare, Proud, Unhoped-for Light-from being contagiously good...
...years before Henry Hudson ever saw Manhattan Island. There is hardly a Mexican town that does not possess some church or other building that illustrates the stately architecture of the Spanish period and back of that are the wonderful relics of Aztec and Mayan architecture which was in full flower centuries before the Spanish...
Peace. Meanwhile the man who is generally regarded as the world's greatest living scientist lives placidly in a white frame house on Princeton's Mercer Street. He chose it for two dimensions, the height of its ceilings and the length of its flower garden in the back. He lives there with Margot, his late wife's daughter by a previous marriage, and his secretary, Fraulein Helen Dukas, who since Frau Einstein's death last year has looked after his bank account, his clothes and other things which to him are equally trivial. In the morning...
...Hokinson illustrations. Far less concerned with the incident than the fiery Hawes, shy Artist Hokinson, a specialist in the idiosyncrasies of clubwomen, was last week mainly interested in a delightful mass of raw material-a mob of inimitably shaped Garden Clubbers who descended on Manhattan's annual Flower Show. One of the few New Yorker satirists whose style has resisted fashion for a decade, Hokinson's workshop is her bedroom, in a neat little apartment on Manhattan's Beekman Place. On her living-room wall are two glossy, old-fashioned American landscapes which she picked...