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...Criticism merely consists in asking oneself if this, that, or the other is 'in the right line.' The line itself is never discussed." The censorship of two adjectives in one of his speeches showed André Gide the line even a distinguished visitor has to toe. He had referred to Russia's destiny, was told he would have to say "glorious destiny." He had referred to a great monarch, was told he would have to delete "great." A longtime champion of homosexuals, he was shocked at the Soviet law condemning homosexuals to five years' deportation...
...arranged to meet the well-known artist Schumann. It happened something like this: "Guten Morgen, I am glad to know you. Won't you come in?" The two moved into the living room, where the visitor's eyes immediately rested upon the piano. Schumann hastened to ask: "Won't you please play something of your own composition?" Without more encouragement the gauche musician sat down and began to play his C major Sonata. Before he had proceeded far, his host cried: "Wait, Gott im Himmel, Clara must listen to this...
...Across the tarmac and down the four runways of Teterboro Field, near little Hasbrouck Heights, N. J., the great and near-great flyers of the day paraded in ceaseless pageant. Bernt Balchen and Clarence Chamberlain based there; wild Bert Acosta cavorted in the sky; Charles Lindbergh was a frequent visitor; Giuseppe Bellanca there tested his new ships. Chief of Teterboro's prides was the No. 1 U. S. air plant of the period-Fokker-building not only most of the big commercial transports but such famed planes as the Josephine Ford which Admiral Byrd flew over the North Pole...
...this part of Russia comrades have been boasting for so many years about the boons of electricity under Communism as compared to its curses under Capitalism that they are ready primed to tell any visitor where he gets off. Manager Mirohnikov of the excellently functioning Dnepropetrovsk Aluminum Plant bustled up at once to the U. S. Ambassador and crowed: "In your country the Mellon interests are responsible for the restricted use of aluminum because they fix the price too high. Such under Socialism would not be tolerated...
...visitors' book at the Harvard Institute of Geographical Exploration, a visitor wrote his address as "17 Quincy Street," described the purpose of his visit "to laern more knolgege." He signed himself Theodore Richards Conant, 10-year-old son of Harvard's president...