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...quarter-century of strenuous and unrelenting labor has finally spelled the demise of the faithful old Randolph Hall switch-board, and yesterday its time-worn panels and moth-eaten cords were removed forever from the hallowed and ivy-covered environs which it has known for so long...
...William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Ernest Hemingway, e. e. cummings, Marianne Moore, Basil Bunting, T. S. Eliot and himself. These selections show the effect of a thoroughly deracinated culture upon some poets, for tradition must have stronger ties than recondite allusions to forgotten epics and obscure quotations from moth-eaten manuscripts in Continental archives. L. Z.'s notes provide some elucidation of the passages from the "XXX Cantos," but there is still not enough clarity for the plain reader. "The Red Front," by Louis Aragon, in the translation of e. e. cummings, is less eccentric than the selections from cummings...
...This, gentlemen, is the best collection of moth-eaten architectural motifs ever gathered in Milwaukee. . . . The exhibition shows the best of good taste in current architecture, but no progressive thought. Our English type houses have out-Englished the English. We are building better colonial homes than can be found in the seaboard towns along the Atlantic . . . but this exhibit contains only two examples of progressive thought. All else is borrowed from other times and other countries and hashed over...
...nature of hunger and reactions of animals to various conditions of light and situation. About 200 rats, 15 cats and kittens, a pair of squirrels, and about 40 salamanders are regularly kept and a pair of monkeys have recently been added to the collection. There is also a moth eaten stuffed tiger whose tail is falling off, that was, according to one of the professors, rescued from the rubbish heap of the University museum and is now used as a hat rack by the students...
...caricature - of Budget Director Lewis W. Douglas by famed Cuban Artist Massaguer. The new format of the Digest is technically the work of its new editor, able Arthur Stimson Draper, longtime correspondent and assistant editor of the New York Herald Tribune (TIME. May 22). But the enterprise of breaking moth-eaten tradition is that of the man who made the tradition famous, Robert Joseph Cuddihy.* Drs. Funk and Wagnall, classmates at Wittenberg College, Ohio and both ordained Lutheran ministers, started business in 1876 in Manhattan, publishing for ministers books, pictures, and the Homiletic Review. A 16-year-old Catholic...