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...girl by the hand; she in turn wac clasping the hand of a chubby infant. All three of them were depicted as standing in the middle of a field of corn, smiling brightly. At the foot of the poster, in great black letters, it said: "Paysans! Paysannes! Pour une vie phis riche-votes Communiste" (Men & women of the farms! For a richer life-vote Communist...
Vachel Lindsay was writing about his home town. For him, Springfield was more than the prosy, prosperous seat of Illinois' State Fair; he saw it as a cultural capital of the future, where art would some day vie with corn, hogs and cattle for attention. The hopeful poet, who died in 1931, might well have been pleased by this year's state fair. Last week, for the first time in Illinois history, fine art was among the exhibits...
Usually grim Union surroundings will undergo a transformation Friday evening when six models, a band unit, and an emcee will choose at random 60 Jubilee ticket holders who will vie with each other for a prize dance with the models at the May 10 Union formal...
...other four sides the gauntleted hand of Director Leonard Feather, whose outlook on hot music is in general futuristic, can be detected. Tenor saxophonist Don Byas, and violinist-trumpeter Roy Nance, vie with each other to see who can try the most technical innovations in sixteen minutes. Nance even drags in a little pizzicato on one of his opening violin choruses. Through it all, however, snatches of Heywood may be heard which, though a bit incongruous in such company are responsible for whatever merit there is in this half...
...Temps et la Vie, L'homme devant la Science, and L'Avenir de L'Esprit (which ran through 22 French editions in eight months during the occupation...