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Another British vicar, the Rev. W. G. Hargrave Thomas of Needham Market, contributed a little shocker of his own: no "social stigma" should be pinned on spinster schoolmarms, he thought, if they felt like having a baby...
...Delvaux' Temptation, featuring three pink ladies, had barely squeezed past U.S. customs officials. Moreover, the painting could not be reproduced in full. By Postoffice standards, the fact that the ladies were painted with pubic hair placed an undue emphasis on their nakedness. Conservative Knoedler's tucked the shocker away in an upstairs corner...
Downstairs hung less tempting Temptations. Max Ernst's prizewinning entry showed the Saint racked by nightmare creatures who appeared to be devouring his loins. But the real shocker was Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's painting of grey, semi-decayed women, swathed in nibbling things and fishnets...
...hopes for big 1946 profits; last week's stock prices were based on the realization that many 1946 profits would be quite modest. The market drop was far sharper than after World War I (see chart] because the shock of disillusionment in the "postwar boom" was greater. Biggest shocker: the Pennsylvania Railroad would lose money this year for the first time in its loo-year history, unless it got a 25% freight increase (estimated loss: $14,616,000 after carryback tax credit...
Tokyo's five-month-old tabloid had a ready explanation for its shocker. Editor Yoshio Kaneko was just doing his best to teach his readers Western democratic habits. U.S. nudist camps are noted for purity of thought, said Sun Photo Times; "wouldn't it be a good idea if the members of Japan's Diet [which includes 39 women] deliberated . . . while naked...