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...framing of the U. S. Constitution, demonstrating that the framers had hard-headed motives never portrayed in grade-school history texts; and that the Federalist papers were slick propaganda. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA, 1883-1935 -Irving Kolodin-Oxford ($3.75). A thorough, painstaking history of a great institution, with pungent sidelights on the Diamond Horseshoe, the various administrators and the outstanding singers. The author is a music critic for the New York...
Died. Humorist Finley Peter Dunne, 68, creator of the famed fictional seriocomic seer "Mr. Dooley"; of cancer of the throat; in Manhattan. A Chicago journalist, in 1892 Dunne patterned "Mr. Dooley" after one James McGarry, whose bar he frequented. With his pungent comments on public figures and affairs ("Politics ain't a bean bag. 'Tis a man's game, an' women, childher and pro-hybitionists's do well to keep out iv it."), Mr. Dooley was for 20 years a national institution...
...Washington's Adams Building stenographers of the Democratic National Committee were annoyed by pungent cooking odors wafted through the transom of General Hugh Samuel Johnson's office next door. When their complaints went unheeded, they bided their time, found the door open one day, spied the General's loyal Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson midway between icebox and stove with a bowl of onions. Questioned, Secretary "Robbie" admitted she often cooked steak for the General's lunch, but snorted: "I never cook onions because they don't agree with...
...Conant refrained from commenting yesterday on the latest bait handed out by Ernst F. S. Hanfstaengl '09, plenipotentiary of Hitler publicity, and the Atlantic waters are again calm after the oversea delivery of Tuesday's pungent missive...
Diplomatic Ginger. Among Japanese civilians there is a less pungent "Ginger Group" composed of exceedingly ambitious and snappy young men who have been jumped sensationally to high promotions in the Japanese Diplomatic Service over the dismayed and hoary heads of venerable superiors who would like to know what Japan and respect for age in the Orient are coming...