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...softer ironies at which perceptive Nazis squirm became visible last week in Bavaria. Opened by Realmleader Hitler with a 90-minute tirade against post-war esthetics (TIME, July 26), the new, massive House of German Art in Munich drew daily throngs of youths and maidens looking for Strength Through Joy in a collection of conventional paintings by young Nazi discoveries. But for every visitor who paid 50 pfennigs to see what the Führer liked in the way of art, three visitors went down the street a little to see for nothing what the Führer despises. This...
...hall, which will indeed barely scrape the surface of a really important habitation problem, is for the University to admit just how difficult that problem has become. Rearrangement of suites here and there has made available in all accomodations for about fifteen more men in the Houses--a few squirm through the bars while several hundred fret unhappily between Little and Claverly...
...Brand new was the most squirm-making act of all, a Hopi Indian snake dance. While portly Col. Tim McCoy explains that the idea is to placate the snakes because in them rest spirits who can return to the rain gods and intercede for a good corn crop, eight painted, breech-clouted Hopis trail around in a circle holding one or two snakes apiece, while a man in the centre waves a bunch of feathers to divert the serpents' attention. As a public precaution, the snakes' fangs have been removed or are kept folded back by little buckskin...
None but Jordanstowners would deplore Author Johnson's humane sentiments, but many from other counties will squirm at the humorless rhetoric she dresses them up in. Unreconstructed oldsters who remembered Booth ("Old Tark") Tarkington's The Conquest of Canaan averred that they still preferred his version of the story...
...were hard to meet. "Well, John," Mr. Gravell said, "don't worry about it. Here's the $6,500. Go pay off the mortgage." Astonished, John mumbled his thanks, promised not to give away what the boss was doing. One after another Mr. Gravell watched his employes squirm, then gave them checks for doctor bills, past-due installments on radios, mortgages, or, if they were free from debt, a check for perhaps $200 or $300. One worker, after receiving nearly $5,000, turned on Mr. Gravell and shouted: "You're a hell of a boss. I thought...