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...finest, most applauded novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), Fitzgerald succeeded superbly in portraying the hollowness of his racketeer-hero's life. But it was not until the crash had turned his New York playground into an "echoing tomb" where "cocktail parties [rang] with [cries of] 'Shoot me, for the love of God, someone shoot me!' " that his tone grew truly grim. Even so, he still had money, good looks, devoted friends, popularity. His passion for work continued ; he sold stories to the richer magazines; he went to work in Hollywood...
...Most Paris museum collections were well cared for by the Nazis. Reasons: 1) they intended to use Paris as a German playground after the war; 2) German withdrawal from Paris was forced too quickly to permit pillage...
...Parisienne (which seats 75 people, calls itself "the most intimate room in the city"), alleged to owe $13,693 in back city taxes; big, garish Copacabana (which The New Yorker recently described as "life in a boiler factory") allegedly owing $37,370; and the Stork Club, top playground of all, allegedly owing...
Last week Mrs. Zorah White Gristede, slim, attractive wife of an executive of the swank Gristede grocery chain, wrote the Commissioner a letter: "Concerning the children's 'playground' at Eighty-Fifth Street and Fifth Avenue-it's filthy, in truth more 'pen' than park and fit only for use of pigs. . . . Having seen the scrupulously clean parks of other nations of the world, maintained at a fraction of the cost of ours, I say with authority that Central Park, in toto, is a disgrace...
Port authorities, housed on the second floor of an old red brick schoolhouse, pored over papers, marked information about ship movements and tonnages on the school blackboards. On the ground floor school went on as usual. At recess time, officers closed their windows to shut out the playground noise, went back to planning the logistics of the greatest single over-water military operation soldiers have ever conceived...