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...week ahead of time, 12,000 Republicans in the nation's capital jammed Uline Arena to buy a boxed chicken supper, gaze at drum majorettes and applaud an aged American Indian in spectacles and war bonnet. With partisan joy they listened to a series of grim, lowbrow political messages reeking with campaign clich...
Once upon a carefree time, escapists could pick up a historical novel confident of finding a simple mixture of sword play and midnight love. Nowadays, as part of the now fashionable pedantry that corrodes everything from highbrow poetry to lowbrow science fiction, the historical novel is often as minutely researched as a Ph.D. thesis. Merchant of the Ruby, a fearsomely thorough drenching in the 15th Century Wars of the Roses, is a prime example. Readers of the Merchant need a refresher course in history, an elaborate diagram of royal genealogy, and a passionate interest in the problem of which English...
...industrialists feel compelled to sponsor the lunar expedition because the Government fails to foresee the trip's military importance. Happily, the script draws the line at romance in the rocket or on the moon, but it does go in for some unrelieved comic relief by a lowbrow crew member from Brooklyn...
...Metropolitan Opera's pretty Coloratura Mimi Benzell, 26, caused a few lowbrow eyebrows to rise when, in a Hollywood nightclub, she unexpectedly gave the customers some lowdown blues and a couple of ladylike bumps. Said she: "I'm making a lot of people like opera that never could stand it before...
...middlebrow Atlantic Monthly, the highbrows' lowbrow Cartoonist Al Capp confessed last week to a secret ambition-"to get published in something that won't be used to wrap fish in the next morning. And so, the other day, I was Writing a book." Its title: I Remember Monster. ("The first part" explained Al "is a memoir of my early days as assistant to a well-known cartoonist.") Under its tomfoolishness, Capp's article in the February issue of the Atlantic (cover by Capp) was a perceptive essay on Charlie Chaplin...