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...with a verve derogatory ditties about the police and patriots. The pinch of hunger had wizened their faces and made them look four or five years older than they were, but it had left their spirits free for the hatreds which the organizers chose to sow. This is the sketch which a college graduate living among the miners draws in the July Forum...
...specific word about the two books. Mr. Larg's short biographical sketch was first published in 1930 and is now reissued. It is at times extremely esoteric. He pictures Andre Maurois through his books, largely through his novels, which are not so well known in America. But it is understanding and sympathetic, appropriately so to Mr. Maurois; perhaps because it contains so many of his own words...
...same page, in the next column, in a character sketch of Congressman La Guardia from TIME'S own pen, a sentence reads: "His chief weakness is that he has no responsibility except to himself and his own conscience...
...human race. One of its foundation-stones is the Pittsburgh citizen, now dead, who encouraged his smouldering pipe with kerosene; a large block of the Kastle's coping is the English nation, which to the Professor's amazement seems always able to addle through. In a sketch of Henry Ford, Author Pitkin disclaims ambition to write the Ford biography-"the job would be too dull for us." Walt Whitman he calls a caution, but is forced to admit, "Not until introverts no longer read and write shall we be rid of the Steer that lived on Leaves...
...next numbers will be puppet shows managed by C. S. Beech and Vincent Palmer. The first will be a sketch entitled "The Big Fight," the second a number "Dancing Skeletons" that requires expert manipulation. This will be followed by a juggling and cycling act by W. P. Rockwell and F. L. Spreckels...