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Still anxious lest they offend their Dry enemies, the New York brewers, through Col. Jacob Ruppert, had announced that the new brew would not be delivered until 6 a. m. on historic April 7 so that there would be no "carnival of untoward celebration." Next day at lunch time, New Yorkers thronged forth to try their beer. First problem was to find it. Most hotels and clubs were serving but elsewhere distribution was capricious. Some soft drink stands and cafeterias had it, some did not. Householders found 3.2% beer at most chain groceries, but late the first day most stocks...
...second section deals with four "magicians": Cocteau, to whom the book is dedicated, Maritain, Max Jacob, and Picasso. Sachs' devotion to these men amounts virtually to hero-worship--although he would probably be horrified at the word. And yet for the most part he is able to give fair estimates of their achievements. On Picasso, of whom he knows the least, he goes furthest wrong. After saying that Picasso's genius is so great that anything he may produce cannot be without value, an absurd supposition in reference to anyone, he compares him to Leonardo, and lapses into further unqualified...
...Bizet, composer of "Carmen," the grandson of Georges Sachs, the great friend of Anatole France and Briand, and of the Madame Straus Proust immortalized as Madame Verdurin, he was brought up among literary people whose reputations were already established. And later, as the protege of Cocteau, Maritain, and Max Jacob, he knew all that world of genius and bohemianism, so strange in its contradictions and all comprehending unity...
Last week Drs. Thomas James Glover of New York and Jacob Lenhert Engle of Philadelphia, after ten years' research, proposed a spore-bearing organism. They find the spore-bearing germ in human breast cancer, can grow the material like any germ, and with cultures produce secondary cancers in guinea pigs, animals notoriously difficult to render cancerous. The National Institute of Health thinks so well of Drs. Glover and Engle's work that it let their last week's announcement bear the Institute's cachet...
...Jacob Ruppert of Manhattan has something in common with the groundhog and the katydid. Even as they foretell spring and frost, so does he regularly punctuate the calendar with his annual statement: "The Yankees are stronger than last year." Last week Col. Ruppert so stated, and its followers throughout the land then knew surely that Baseball was at hand again. The season opens April 12. After their month of limbering, exercising, exhibition games in Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and California, it was possible last week to cast up a rough account of how the 16 major teams stand this year...