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...Mused he: "I like to say that I am through handling snakes forever, but I know I'm not." Last week Snakeman March emerged unbitten from the jungles of Panama's Darien district proudly bearing to his new serpentarium in Old Panama City a live, nine-ft. specimen of the most dangerous snake in the American tropics-the bushmaster...
...quiet he makes Harpo his chauffeur, appoints Chico secretary of war. In the course of conducting their "spy business," Harpo finds three opportunities to run after young women. Chico successfully restrains him. When Chico is tried by Freedonia's supreme court, Groucho feels sorry for him. "This abject specimen . . ." he says. Says Chico: "I abject." When Freedonia finally gets into war, its armies are superior to those of most mythical kingdoms because they contain monkeys and elephants, but they sustain a shameful, shattering defeat...
Frederic William Goudy's interest in the shape and style of letters started as a child when he decorated his Sunday School room with texts redrawn from specimen letters in an old type book and cut out of fancy wallpaper. As bookkeeper, clerk, unsuccessful publisher, ad vertising artist, he never lost interest in letters. From Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers, other famed printers and designers have built great reputations on the strength of two or three original alphabets. In the centre of the Goudy exhibition last week a streamer list hung from a column. It started with Camelot, 1896, ended...
...exhibit there were plenty of other mementoes of Goudy's career. In cases around the wall were the original drawings, matrices and specimen sheets of most of the 87 type faces. Most of the sheets were hand set and printed by Bertha Goudy who can match her husband's repu tation as a type designer with her own as the world's ablest woman printer. In Marlborough, N. Y., despite exhausting and remunerative* work for publishers, advertising agencies and type founders, the Goudys still do with their own hands all the work of the original Village Press...
...legend that, north of Mexico, the maguey blossoms only once a century existed largely on lack of observation. The plant blooms naturally in the sunny Southwest. But in northern States the maguey requires the comforts of greenhouses. No northern specimen is known to have bloomed outdoors...