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Delighted friends made him send it to The New Yorker, which snapped it up, asked for more & more & more. Today Poet Nash gets big money from the nickel weeklies and mass monthlies...
...Marie Harriman Gallery in Manhattan this week went shapes in polished nickel, bronze, marble, wood and plaster, the latest exhibition of the works of able young Isamu Noguchi, son of a Japanese father, a U. S. mother. The show contained the usual Noguchi melange of clever portrait heads, elaborate abstractions, projects for impossible architectural developments. In the latter manner was a strange triangular something called Monument to the Plow...
Author Breuer compares modern love to a nickel-in-the-slot piano: "Sad and twanging and uneven and the old sacred chords breaking through." This should be fair warning to readers who like a more classical-romantic tune. Memory of Love is an ambitious attempt to transpose the old sweet song into what traditional troubadours will call a purely imaginary key. Author Breuer is a woman but she writes her story in the masculine first person. Her feminine peers may see in her novel the projection of a feminine daydream : how it would feel to be a lady-killer...
...past, the streets of Cambridge have been comparatively free from those perennial pests of West Street and Atlantic Avenue, the slouched-hat individuals who edge up and ask for a "nickel for a cup of coffee." But within the past few years, the liberality of college men has so encouraged begging on street corners that it has become a veritable racket. Indeed, careful investigation has disclosed that in some cases the men have not only asked out a bare existences, but were so contented with the results of their solicitations that they had no desire to go back to regular...
...take your choice of candidates, but you might as well keep your nickel; the Committee is going to keep...