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...last part of American Memoir deals with the quarter century of Canby's experience in literary Manhattan, beginning in 1920 when Canby was editor of a Saturday supplement to the old New York Evening Post (later the Saturday Re-view). The author's affections are somewhat frigid and his sense of anecdote lacks pungency, so that much of these reminiscences of a rather raffish and effervescent period read like a sedate editorial essay. His reports of acquaintanceship with people he admires, such as Willa Gather, Robert Frost and Clarence Day (Life with Father) are too guarded and smooth...
...Kankakee, the famed beauties at the Folies Bergère "will be acting with even more abandon now that warm weather is here. Last winter their nude bodies were often blue with cold, and electricians had to work overtime devising lights that would give the proper hue to the frigid form divine...
...effort to induce his long-frigid bull alligators to mate, Curator of Reptiles Robert Snedigar, of Chicago's Brookfield Zoo, stooped to trickery. He invited four French horn players to play a few B-flat notes which, he said, sound just like the male alligator's mating burp. Results: none...
...Canada's frigid Fort Churchill, on an inspection tour as chairman of the U.S.-Canada defense board, Fiorello La-Guardia slipped into a furry hat and posed for cameramen (see cut). Then he hurled a $500,000 legal snowball at the New York World-Telegram. He disliked some recent editorials on his mayoralty, he said, and was suing for libel...
...news of a more pointedly frigid U.S. attitude, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...