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...monarchies and empires have gone with the wind. But whatever else goes, the Folies-Bergère remains. The Folies, a pleasure dome dedicated principally to the delights of the eye, is probably the world's most famed theater. Its fame rests securely on a basic theatrical principle, viz., if men like anything better than a shapely show girl in satins and sequins, it is a shapely show girl oujt of them. The Folies supplies both...
...emotions deserve privacy, yet if the object of emotional attachment is the wife of another man, the law attaches liability to inquiry, or, if she should prove to be a foreign agent, the FBI would be warranted in taking interest. The same reasoning justifies inquiry into Communist Party membership, viz., intimate relationship with the matters of conceded public concern. Even the practice of religious belief [e.g., polygamy] may be made criminal under circumstances involving no national danger...
...Brassbound Attempt. Veteran Pentagon newsmen recognized the story for what it was: a brassbound attempt to strike at Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover (TIME, Jan. 11) and his Nautilus. But a relatively inexperienced United Press reporter used the story. He quoted "a Navy spokesman," viz., Cutter, as saying: "The Nautilus is strictly a test vehicle. I doubt if she will ever fire a shot in anger...
Your article . . . is interesting but like other such articles, doesn't deal with the jackpot question, viz., would the writer condone or condemn his or her daughter being courted and finally marrying a man of opposite color...
...exception to the rule"--viz., that only married men taught the all-girl sections at Radcliffe. I was married in the summer of 1946, and was assigned my first Gov. 1 section at Radcliffe in the fall. This is not to suggest I wouldn't have enjoyed being "the exception", but to insist for the record that the pleasure was never mine...