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ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN?F. Scott Fitzgerald?Scribner's ($2). The preciosity that glittered in the work of young Mr. Fitzgerald when he used to write exclusively about petting and orange-juice, has acquired a deepening stain of understanding. Princeton's Pierrot, aging, holds Columbine at arm's length...
Disgraceful. A crowd in Newark, N. J., hooted and jeered. Ringside humorists expressed the idea that they had come to see a boxing match, not a pillow fight between a couple of roommates. In the center of the ring Paul Berlenbach, cloudy-faced Light Heavyweight Champion, stood with his huge...
"There is one thing I have noticed about this campaign. It is not exactly what you would call a political petting party. . . .
William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, prohibition fanatic: "Before sailing from Manhattan for Europe, I told newspapermen that in a six-months' tour of America I had seen only four intoxicated people. Said I: 'These United States are a Sunday School compared to what they used to be. This talk about gin...
Fritz Kreisler, famed violinist: "In an interview given to a reporter on the Reliance, bound for Hamburg, I suggested that a movement be undertaken to induce the inventor of the so-called death ray (TIME, June 2 et seq.), to sell his device to 'an interested body of trustworthy...