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William Faulkner's latest fairy tale about the human race contains no bogeyman, but as usual his protagonists have their hearts in the wrong place. Tacit thesis of Pylon is that airmen are not people, but a race apart, unaccountable, sinister, inhuman. "They ain't human like us. . . . Crash one and it ain't even blood when you haul him out; it's cylinder oil the same as in the crankcase." Though Author Faulkner obviously admires his creatures, they will seem to most readers less god-like than monstrous. But those who can manage to skip...
...does the merriment stop with the performance; rather, in accredited dialect--You ain't seen nuthin' yet. Invited by the charming ushers in evening gowns, you join the cast on the stage for a preliminary cup of coffee and a sandwich gratis. Follows then community singing and dancing, all very folksy, and you can take home anything that strikes your fancy. You will find Belle Livingston just a bit elderly for your tastes, but she is very nice about bringing the young people together. Restrictions are of a naive nature, to quote the program, "Kindly refrain from cracking peanuts during...
Opening today for a two-weeks' showing at the new gallery of the Fine Arts Guild at 162 Mt. Auburn Street is an amusing exhibition of original covers and cartoons selected from the New Yorker. Included are Regional Marsh's black crayons of "Green pastures" and "new York Ain't What it Used to be", black and white brushed by Robert Day, colored covers by Alajalov, and cartoons by Ginyas Williams, formerly of the CRIMSON and Lampoon, and by Cart Rose...
...vigilante corps. Dr. Moody told newshawks that he thought that Lillian was not pregnant, had not actually been raped. Indeed, she was back at school. Nevertheless Father Gibson swore a mighty oath, declaring: "The fire hain't started to burn yet. Our people back in the hills ain't agoin' to forget. They can keep the National Guards here for months, but that won't matter. I took Pat Lawes, who was my nephew by marriage, and Gill Freeman with me to the trial in my truck. Now both of 'em are dead. Governor McAlister...
...explained to the Committee as involving financial arrangements for youngsters who crossed parish lines to attend school. Next day someone troubled to read the bill, discovered that it gave Long power to hire & fire all the State's 15,000 schoolteachers. Said the unabashed Kingfish: "Aw, that ain't nothing. That ain't no new power. But the bill provoked a New England-born, hitherto mouse-quiet Representative named Lester to supply the only fireworks of the session. While Huey Long, wearing a pink shirt and a broad grin, lolled on the Speaker's dais, Representative...