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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Mr. Frankensteen: "If it was okay in 1933, why isn't it okay...
...Poetry," but Frost gives himself a wide range. Some of his class find plenty to worry about in such Frost-bites as: "Don't Work - Worry" -or: "I save my scorn for the people who say what everyone else says. If you repeat a thing three times, it isn't true any more." Nobody ever flunks Teacher Frost's "course." "Don't write for A's" says he, "write for keeps, for blood. Writing for A's is just practice. . . . Athletics are more terribly real than anything else in education. It's because...
...traditional Harvard-Yale grid battle is annually debunked on every side. There isn't a player on either team who has the slightest claim to AH-America honors; neither squad has the faintest claim in high ranking among the football powers of the nation...
...many lorgnettes, but still fun: The Cocoanut Grove specializes in liquor and a floor show. Dancing isn't too marvelous. . . . The Brown Derby-about the same as the foregoing-a little less expensive. . . The Casa Manana nice setting with good music and food make this a good bet. Probably will be crowded as it isn't murderous in its prices. . . . The Mayfair: about the same as the others, a little noisier, and more expensive. . . Crawford House-to be avoided if possible. Slumming that isn't even fun. . . By the way, we almost forgot the two swanker of the Boston night...
Broadway is a gold mine for Kaufman, but he never rests on his ores. He is just as apt to start thinking up a new play when he has a smash hit as when he has a flop. A friend has said that if Kaufman isn't a millionaire, he'll do until one comes along; but Kaufman may not be altogether fooling when he insists that constant work is something of a financial necessity. A generous man, he has never worshipped at the shrine of Compound Interest. "All I know," he once said, "is that I have...