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Sightseers in Cleveland usually go to see Karamu House. A cross between a school and settlement house, it got its name from a Swahili word meaning "place of enjoyment," comes close to being the ugliest institution in the U. S. Its five grey shanties squat in the heart of the "Roaring Third," Cleveland's worst slum. Its students, dressed in caps, windbreakers, overcoats, shriek at each other as they work, now & again break off for impromp tu boxing matches. Yet Clevelanders were not surprised last week when the Charles Eisenman Award, Cleveland's most cov eted civic prize...
Quivered blonde, pants-wearing Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich: "When I started the custom of wearing men's trousers I never dreamed it would spread to such universal proportions. ... It actually makes me shudder when I see fat, squat women waddling around in slacks...
...that remained of Hog Island shipyard last week were a few tag ends of foundations rotting in the water. But scores of squat, ugly Hog Islanders still plowed the seas, slow but effective Marthas of a U. S. merchant marine now seven times larger than at the outbreak of World War I. And last week Franklin Roosevelt gave the signal to build the Hog Islands of World War II-new yards to assemble 200 identical 7,500-ton, prefabricated cargo ships, to cost from...
Among other Europeans who had made their mark in 1940, one was short, squat General John Metaxas, Premier of the Greeks, who had made a monkey of Benito Mussolini. Another was Britain's Union Leader Ernest Bevin, who became a tower of strength in Britain's Government, who rallied Labor to Britain's cause, who became a symbol of the breakdown of class distinctions by which Britain achieved a new unity to fight her battle...
Several seasons ago the authors of Suzanna wrote a funny play about bundling -The Pursuit of Happiness. In Suzanna they waver uncertainly between pale comments on the folly of socialist hopes in a world which loves to squat on a dime, and rather skittish comedy derived from the idea of a human stud farm...