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...those days the Republicans knew very little of the secret Nazi-Communist war. Until the trial was well under way few people realized that more was at stake than a duel between a pimp named Albrecht Hoehler and a brown-shirted street fighter named Horst Wessel for the favor of a harlot. Eight people received sentences up to six years at hard labor. Albrecht Hoehler, who confessed firing the fatal shots, died very suddenly in jail last year immediately after the Nazis took over the government. Most of the rest have completed their terms. A new trial with three...
...your April 3 issue p. 4, the protests by Tessa H. Fluhr and comments by Lillian and Walter Mendes concerning handsome Adolf bring to my mind the fact that the German expression "der scho'ne Adolph" was one formerly used for the second oldest profession (pimp). Present-day usage seems to have mollified this harsh meaning but it is still used oftener in a derisive sense than otherwise...
...friends rescue him, take him to a hospital, stand by till he is on his feet again. The old friends are naturally crooks but they are loyal, sympathize with his plight, respect his determination. They get him another girl, little Mieze, fresh from the streets. Biberkopf becomes her pimp. They live in comparative comfort, surprise themselves by falling in love with each other. Then Reinhold comes on the scene again...
...painted his first society portrait, after the War, of Lady Diana Manners, as she lay in bed. Since then he has done hundreds, expects to do many more. Privately he hates society jobs, quotes his friend the late great John Singer Sargent that "portrait painting, my boy, is a pimp's profession." One portrait, however, that he thoroughly enjoyed was that of faithful James Miller, ancient, honorable red-nosed steward of Princeton's Ivy Club. Because Artist Lintott painted faithful James smiling quizzically over a silver cocktail shaker, timorous club trustees refused to accept the picture, feared that...
POOR NIGGER-Orio Vergani-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). George Boykin, true to the best African tradition, was conceived, born and bred in total darkness. Bandied by harlots, sailors, soldiers, he saw much of life, understood little. While employed as a pimp in a Senegalese seaport, he first met Madame Germaine, relict of a French engineer; later went to her house after he had been shot in the shoulder in a cafe brawl. Madame Germaine, philanthropic, took him to France with her; lost him as soon as the boat landed. He worked as bootblack, ice-boy, thief, until he met Tommy Walsh...