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Peoria. The Trial of the Obscene Picture Man was straight Good & Evil. Good was Mildred Hallmark, 19, pretty, self-respecting hostess in a cafeteria who had been found stripped, raped and murdered in a Peoria cemetery ditch last June. During last week's trial Midwest newspapers temporarily promoted her from a cafeteria hostess to a night club hostess, reconsidered, returned her to the cafeteria. Her last night she had seen Public Hero No. 1 with a friend who had left her to go home alone in the rain...
Nonplussed Paris dinner guests of Mrs. Laurence Vincent Benét, U. S. wife of the Managing Director of La Societe Hotchkiss et Cie. (machine guns), aunt-in-law of the Poets Benét, reported that between cocktails and soup Hostess Benet served each female guest with a cotton puff on a silver waiter and a brief note: "Please dispose of your lipstick. ... I love and value my linen...
...verse play, Cake, less grave than his contemplative Eden Tree, Guest Book nevertheless contains several sprightly amusing poems, several that strike a deep note of sadness and concern. Hospitable and urbane, Author Bynner has among his 70 guests a Communist and a patriot, a liar, a painter, a hostess, a debutante, a bachelor, maintains the same good manners, the same ironic detachment toward all. A depthless scorn is revealed only for the poetess who "would have ordered God from the front door if he had come in clothes that meant the back." Literary detectives may believe they recognize originals like...
...stopped by police when the race had gone two miles; a 69-year-old Memphis lumberman named Frank May, who bet a friend $3,000 he would finish the walk. The friend accompanied the race in a car pulling May's automobile trailer, equipped with icebox, piano, hostess and Lumberman May's Negro valet...
...beside the ferocity of Mr. Sweetser's "September," in which a Junior, unable to return to college for his Senior year because as he succinctly puts it, "The old man's broke," goes slightly berserk at a debutante party where champagne flows in buckets and orates impolitely to his hostess: "You sit here and smile and talk about mistakes and starving men and studying art at Columbia and what does it all amount to?" Mr. Bach finds, apparently, that it amounts to the inevitable disintegration of capitalistic society, and ironically points out, in "So You're a Parlor Pink," that...