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...World War I, U.S. railroads used four times as many day coaches as Pullmans to haul troops, and at night a doughboy usually had to fold himself up to rest on a dusty, red-plush day-coach seat. Today's soldiers travel across the U.S. two in a lower berth, one in an upper.* The Army now gets 28 Pullmans for each coach. The War Department's Services of Supply gives other reasons than comfort for preferring Pullman travel: 1) when troops move at night by sleeper, nobody is the wiser; 2) civilian rail traffic is lighter...
...wrote an avid amateur jazz musician. Paul Smith, in a Manhattan jazz concert program note a month ago. Last week Manhattanites had their fourth chance of the season to hear jazz-authentic, impromptu jazz-in the plush seats of Town Hall...
This is the sort of thing the vested interests fear. They're frightened to give the people the vote, not because they really think anarchy would spread throughout the South, but because they want to hold their plush seats as long as possible. It is noteworthy that all the arguments of this determined group are couched in fear of what would happen to the South were the vote extended. But nothing revolutionary has happened in Florida, Louisiana, or North Carolina, three States that have abolished their tax--nothing except an extension of democracy. North Carolina's effective vote went...
...what most of her colleagues in this sort of fictioneering lack: a really considerable talent for romantic narrative, an ability to make plush-and-rhinestones look like the real thing...
...Beckmann, Germany's greatest living artist (before Hitler), was packing to leave Holland, teach at the Chicago Art Institute, when invasion swallowed him in the spring of 1940. Last week, Chicago gave missing Max Beckmann his biggest one-man show in the U.S., at the plush-lined, modern-art-conscious Arts Club...