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...Last Time I Saw Paris is a loving, microscopic peep at the infusorial life of the block-long rue de la Huchette (just off the boul' Mich'), Author Paul's lost hedonistic heaven. Its hotels, bars, bordello and habitues exhale for him the garlicky breath of the real France−"the France one prefers to remember." Mostly they stagger between the tough tenderness of a Daumier cartoon and William Locke's The Beloved Vagabond. They also suggest a reason for France's fall...
Last week the Logan prize went to a piece of sculpture, Kneeling Women by Abbott Lawrence Pattison, now in the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School in Chicago. There was not a peep from Mrs. Logan. Chicago Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich, who puts on the yearly show of Chicago's artists, breathed a sigh of relief...
...Board has loudly upheld employers' right to freedom of speech. But the effect of many of the board's decisions has been to convince employers that they cannot actually speak out. Tiptoeing around in the threatening shadows of the act, many a boss has been scared to peep...
...poem, Lucretius: "What a mess little Swinburne would have made of this." > Somerset Maugham on "the bitter purgatory" awaiting Henry James in the hereafter: "Poor Henry, he's spending eternity wandering round and round a stately park and the fence is just too high for him to peep over and they're having tea just too far off for him to hear what the countess is saying...
They call it all sorts of names: "jeep," "beep," "peep," "bug," "chigger."* But by any name this homeliest item in the U.S. Army's rolling stock, the 2,200-lb. midget combat car, has, after a year and a half of service, been recognized as an unexpected and unique success...