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...other distractions, one small group of zealots, the pinsters of Harry's Club (Saxe not Widener), hold to the good old days when pinball was threatening baseball as the national pastime. Today the summer soldiers have fallen by the way and only the devotees remain. Harry's Arcade Spa, located under the wing of Mother Advocate, is the mecca of this latter group, the boys that "care." A knot of them, mostly from Adams House, gather after almost every lunch and dinner to practice their pinmanship. They look with disdain upon the more vulgar pin parlors on Mt. Auburn Street...
Harry Saxe, a Cambridge boy by birth, has run his Arcade Spa for two decades and claims to have waited on sons of Roosevelts, Morgans, and Rockefellers. He calls his two-steps-down shop "Arcade" because it is the only store nearby to run from one street to the next, Bow to Mt. Auburn; "Spa" because he sells just about everything to everybody...
Saratoga, danced in Manhattan by Leonide Massine's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, was Muscovite Americana, less pretentious than the Russians' earlier Union Pacific and Ghost Town. Jockeys and girls in hoop skirts footed it among the Victorian curlicues of New York's spa, while two males vied for the favors of svelte Alexandra Danilova. Weinberger's tripping score afforded not only one authentic polka, but many a polka-dotted measure. No fugue...
...parliament of 100 French Senators and Deputies opposed to the Nazi-powered Vichy regime. Credence was speedily lent this report by Vichy decree. Senators and Deputies were ordered to stop meeting officially or semiofficially in Vichy, to move their offices to Châtel-guyon-les-Bains, a tiny spa 45 miles from Vichy...
...infrequently Father Budd dashes over from Connecticut to give the U. S. businessman's point of view; he talks to Lanny about sex and a career, and to Basil Zaharoff about armaments, oil, and what wires to pull. They go to a great-many conferences-San Remo, Spa, Cannes, Genoa-where Sinclair introduces vignettes of Steffens, Mussolini, Litvinoff, and a sweet-tempered scorching of Harding's Roman Ambassador, Richard Washburn Child...