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...Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?" With this proposition, impressionistic, word-jumbling Gertrude Stein, most famed of U. S. literary expatriates, greeted the first corps of U. S. newshawks she had seen in 31 years. Author Stein, hearty, hefty, dressed in a coarse, mannish suit and thick woolen stockings, was sailing up New York Harbor to begin a lecture tour. Over her close-cropped grey hair was pulled a tweed deer-stalker's cap. To the disappointment of newshawks, she gave an intelligible interview: "I do talk as I write but you can hear...
...forget anybody who ever wrote anything" a new writer, 26-year old Armenian William Saroyan, published his first book of short stories this month. Despite Mr. Saroyan's too evident desire to avoid classification, however, he is easily catalogued as belonging to that school of writing dominated by Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Edith Sitwell, so aptly labeled by Max Eastman as "the cult of unintelligibility...
Advertising Manager Kraus sells a number of things beside garters, including belts, suspenders, girdles, dress shields, sanitary aprons, baby pants - all made by A. Stein & Co. Despite the rise of Nudism, Paris garters are sold in 65 foreign countries, and in a good year A. Stein & Co. makes nearly $1,000,000. (But last year it made only $280,00.) The concern was started in a one-room plant in Chicago in the 1880s by Albert Stein, a German immigrant, to turn out ladies' fancy garters with rabbits' feet and silver buckles and the blazing armbands favored...
...least the taxi fares were reasonable. The barter system is in full force and you try one fellow after another until you get the best buy. It all averages about 25 miles for $.75...All the members of the Keio University nine knew the words to the Maine "Stein Song" (poor things) and so the Harvard team returned the compliment by learning their school song and using it as a war-cry on the trip home...That trip back was uneventful and Captain-elect Dick Maguire was the only one who found the tossing of the ship disturbing...Craig Woodruff...
Chief Russian delegate was that old veteran of Geneva conferences, roly-poly Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, but in future he will have two confreres to assist him. Vladimir Potemkin, Ambassador to Rome, and Boris Stein, Minister to Helsingfors...