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...ladies," declared Verse Promoter Louis Untermeyer in Vogue, "are just not funny." (He meant lady writers.) He explained why: woman "has faced the universe and made her home in it. ... Men, sheltered by their women, have used the universe as their playground. They may work in it, but they never quite grow up in it." Women are not very funny as actresses, either, said he. His clincher: "There are ... no Marx Sisters...
...public school under the easygoing supervision of the project's Quaker directors, Dr. & Mrs. Raymond Binford. Each morning, after a 20-minute period of Quakerly meditation, the group separates for its various duties - helping the Mexican nurses at the clinic, accompanying them on their rounds, supervising playground activities in the school...
...Robinson, daughter of Aspenjs mayor, a push off to open the is,000-ft. ski tow, longest in the world (see cut). With six 14,000-foot peaks near by, plenty of dry, powdery snow, and multi-million-dollar backing, Aspen was out to become the top winter-sport playground...
...health, became a six-foot Maine woods' guide and first woman to hold a Maine guide license; in Lewiston, Me. She modeled the first short-skirt sports costume for women (seven inches from the ground) at the National Sportsman Show of 1895, was credited with coining the phrase "Playground of the Nation" for her native state, was believed to have caught more fish with a fly than any other woman...
...review of The Condemned Playground by Cyril Connolly [TIME, July 29]. The reason Connolly did not include U.S. literature is obvious; U.S. literature, with the sole exception of Joseph Hergesheimer (as far as I know), reflects the Industrial Revolution...