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...Strings & Morality. Author de Beauvoir gathered her evidence at swank hotels and dreary slums, saw and did whatever she could. In a New Orleans nightclub she saw a beautiful brunette do a striptease, and when the girl was down to her G-string, "the atmosphere was so charged with morality that one might have been in church." She also smoked marijuana in a New York hotel apartment with a group of initiates. One dark woman had an abandoned look and tears in her eyes, and kept saying she was "madly happy." Mlle. de Beauvoir smoked three cigarettes...
...made in retail prices still buffaloes me; if the farmer gave the packer the cattle and hauled them in free, how much would the price of retail meat lower? Admittedly the prime and choice steaks will be high- they always have been-but let the Cadillac owners and swank restaurants have them. Your reporter might be surprised to see the towns and stores that don't carry as good a quality as the "good," but at a "good" price ; and much of that hamburger and lower-priced meat isn't from the 14? steer, either; it comes from...
Body in a Sack. Only half a block away from swank Delamere Avenue, police caught one Mau Mau gang initiating new members (by forcing them to drink blood, and eat a sheep's entrails). Last week Banasio Kahangara, son of the Paramount Chief of Lari who was murdered this spring (TIME, April 6), was found in a sack on Main Street, strangled...
...parade continued. Past the swank Hotel Taft, past a slumbering business district, and back to the Harkness Common where the bandsmen stopped, and, as if to offer some consolation, blared out the Yale medley. A tuba player had trouble keeping the beat; he was laughing too hard. Finally, the band about-faced and sprinted back to the busses. The musicians all boarded, but the busses didn't move. Someone pointed out a window...
...Prophet Jones, Dominion Ruler of the Church of the Universal Triumph, who has established a lien on divinity himself. Forth from Father Divine's headquarters in Philadelphia went a cordial invitation: Would the Prophet attend the consecration of the Father's new 73-acre heaven in swank suburban Montgomery County...