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Georges ("Georgeous Georges") Carpentier, dapper light-heavyweight boxing hero of the '20s and a French air-force veteran of World Wars I & II, was met in Paris by sight-seeing U.S. soldiers who questioned him in schoolboy French, mobbed him when he wisecracked in English: "Why the hell don't you speak your own language? Don't you recognize me?" Carpentier said that his Paris nightclub had been taken over by the Nazis, declared that he had cooperated with the enemy only once, and then under pressure, when he refereed a fight in Berlin. His only question...
Most U.S. modernists still revere and follow in basic principles the European pioneers of the early '20s-Gropius, Oud, Le Corbusier, Miës van der Rohe. But younger architects no longer make a fetish of pure functionalism (following Le Corbusier's dictum "a house is a machine for living") and the ruthless exclusion of all ornament. While they pay close attention to the purposes of their buildings and are inclined to let structural forms speak for themselves, they are concerned about the grace of their designs. All this can be clearly seen in three of the book...
Married. Lionel Atwill, 59, matinee idol of the '20s, now coasting along in Grade B cinema horrors (Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man); and Mary Paula Shilston, 28. concert singer and radio writer; he for the fourth time; in Las Vegas...
During the Prohibition '20s Billy had a connection with an exclusive "Club" on the corner of Manhattan's 52nd Street and Park Avenue. The club involved an initiation fee of $1,500 but people with money still filtered in. Finally police filtered in through the skylight. Billy, of course, had been gone for three days...
...these memories, it one day occurred to Floyd Clymer that other people might enjoy them too. So he began to paste them together to make his book. In it the automobile evolution is traceable in illustrations of 250 cars and motorcycles, mostly dating from 1902 to the early '20s. Many of the illustrations are photographs, made by cameras whose eyes had not lost their innocence. Many others are drawings, some as stripped and lucid as blueprints. Others blend the clean precisions of semimechanical drawing with proud, naive little achievements that catch the shine of leather and paint, the glamor...