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...firecracker who makes Broadway Baby an incendiary number. "I'm the only woman in the cast who remembers Ziegfeld," she says. "In 1925 I was in the Follies as the comedienne." Her song: I'm in Love with Eddie Cantor. When her two sons were attending school at Horace Mann in The Bronx...
Though Barr was nominally opposed to "the crude lash of competition," he sent his own four sons to the fiercely competitive Horace Mann School, and chipped away at Dalton's progressivism by installing tests to supplement written evaluations of students. In an opinionated article several years ago, he flayed teen-age sex ("robots in heat") and roasted permissive parents. "The trouble with many children," he declared, "is that their fathers are mothers and their mothers are sisters...
...LOST," but who beat him? Joe Frazier? Not to the world outside of the buttons, not even to many people on them. As they see it, Muhammad Ali was no more beaten by Frazier than Jack Johnson was beaten by Jeff Willard. What beat Johnson was the Mann Act (which was made retroactive to obtain his conviction) and the continuous psychological and economic war of attrition waged against him by the white world. The only difference in Ali's case is a refinement of technique...
...nightclub, the Cabaret de Champion, outfitted in classical opulence, with a Rembrandt in its valuable art exhibit. In a passionate display of righteousness that must have overdrawn their moral account for the next half-century, the Chicago authorities closed the club. To substantiate the case against him under the Mann Act, white women, some of whom had never even met Johnson, took bribes and testified against him. Johnson was convicted, then the ruling was overturned. But, in the interim, Johnson had jumped bail and fled to Europe...
...wrote Novelist Thomas Mann in a letter to his brother nearly 60 years ago. Now that symbol of permanence is gone. For 300 years, Munich's storied brewery horses made daily deliveries of Löwenbräu beer to inns in the old part of the city. Pulling up to 50 huge wooden kegs behind them, they managed to slow traffic through Munich's narrow streets to a clippety-clop, but the townsfolk rarely seemed to mind. Encountering a horse-drawn beer wagon had become a good-luck omen, on a par with seeing a chimney sweep...