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...delightedly reported by Dadaist Tzara: "For the first time in the history of the world, people threw at us not onlv eggs, vegetables and pennies, but beef-steaks as well. It was a very huge suecess." They will sniff at the mock-heroic episode in which Malcolm Cowley smote a Paris cafe proprietor for Art's sake, thus gathering a two-fisted reputation that later scared bookish Critic Ernest Boyd. Nor will they be moved by his version of the long-drawn-out suicide of Harry Crosby, whom he regards as a symbolic figure. But left-wingers will find...
...fields of Annam up the River of Perfumes, to the forbidden city of Hué, over the walls of the Red City and into the white dragon-eaved Palace. There, last week, among his jazz records, his ping-pong tables, his radio and his detective stories, it found and smote that gloomy youth, Bao Dai, hereditary Emperor of Annam, Son of Heaven, Absolute Master and Father and Mother of his People-and French puppet. Too bored to look sullen. Bao Dai spent his life from 9 to 19 in Europe, where he had let himself be crammed with a good...
Meanwhile the weather was playing a different set of tricks over Labrador. There a high pressure area created an atmospheric trough down which whistled a dry northeast storm right across the path of the oncoming hurricane. The northeaster smote hardest along the New Jersey shore on a Sunday. Holiday fishermen had their craft capsized by the onslaught of wind and wave, were dragged to safety by alert, courageous Coast Guardsmen. Eight lives were lost, among them some of the oldest and ablest fishing skippers along the coast. Week-end trippers at Atlantic City were banged and buffeted. At Lewes...
Against the wind on Miami Beach's championship La Gorce golf course, Ohio's three-time Governor James Middleton Cox, 62, who plays in the low 80's at Dayton's Miami Valley Golf Club, smote his ball true for a 230-yd. drive, holed it on his mashie shot for the first eagle two ever made on the 400-yd. 14th hole. At the 380-yd. 15th he put his iron second shot two inches from the cup for a birdie three. Club Professional Willie Klein stammered, "They were two of the best successively played...
Shock after news shock smote the sensitive Japanese people last week, made them feel that their Empire is menaced by insidious foes, made them prouder than ever of their nutbrown, nut-hard Army...