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...irony suddenly appeared in Der Tag, potent Berlin newspaper owned by Herr Alfred Hugenberg, the late Hugo Stinnes' publicist: "The envious glance of the Yankee turns to rich and flourishing Germany. . . . These [German] barbarians do not even chew gum, but smoke tobacco prodigally and vulgarly. They drink real beer, eat mountains of cake with whipped cream instead of American ice cream and they consume butter, milk, eggs, poultry, and even fruit. Finally, they still drink coffee...
...oarsmen who are not on the first heavy or 150 pound crew squads will be made up into dormitory crews from now on and each dormitory is to have its own coach. J. D. Keogh '25, W. E. Beer '26, V. F. Righter '26 and D. C. Gates '26 are to compose the dormitory coaching staff...
When a gentleman wants beer...
Goaded by the announcement that a special brand of beer was being used by the Cambridge University crew at their training quarters, Richmond-on-the-Thames, England (TIME, March 14), the president of the rival Oxford eight, also in training, made a statement in behalf of his men. They would drink dark beer during the training period as a matter of course; would sip port on alternate nights; once a week indulge in champagne...
Thoughtful commentators like Lord Bryce are no longer read ("too longwinded"). Brilliant specialists like Thomas Beer are chuckled over, then dismissed as satirists ("too clever"). Lewis Mumford steps forward, more penetrating than a Van Wyck Brooks, more coherent than a Ralph Adams Cram, far more mature, mannerly and historical than any Mencken, with a book* that is badly needed. He succinctly, brilliantly yet mellowly, summarizes U. S. culture to date...