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...thousand-throated freshman yell of "Take them off," Sally Rand, at a Harvard smoker, thoughtlessly retorted, "I will if you will," danced in a blizzard of cast-off gents' furnishings...
That Saturday night, as the nation's juke boxes ground out The Last Time I Saw Paris, as millions of Americans danced, drank, played bridge, collided in automobiles, sloshed through the East's thickest blizzard in six years or gave thanks that California's record rain had stopped; as the millions who have as yet felt no impact of the war prayed or played; as on any other Saturday night, with the children bathed and in bed and the old folks nodding by the radio, the U. S. went about its usual concerns, while the Senate took...
...apprehensive men-from-the-street, seeking shelter from last week's blizzard, these abstractions looked like good clean lunatic fun. But the people who went there on purpose could point out that the simplified cubes and planes of this unrealistic art have influenced nearly every type of modern decoration, from typography, magazine layout, window display and fashion design to streamlining and modern architecture...
Earl Carlson was born in Minneapolis during the blizzard of 1897. He was injured by forceps, and still bears a scar on his forehead. He had to crawl on all fours till he was five, but was robust and mischievous. One day, to his mother's amazement, little Earl's flailing arms stole some apples from a fruit stand. "It was the first time that my hand had ever done my bidding," he said. "My stolen apples gave me the clue, not followed up for years, that the secret of control for the muscularly handicapped lies in concentration...
...aged. What has been done until now is almost nothing ... in relation to what the United States is preparing to do." At noon the Admiral left to present his credentials to Marshal Pétain. This time there was a guard of honor, a company of French marines. The blizzard was over; the air was brightening. Simultaneously with the Ambassador's visit came a Washington announcement that the U. S. would make its agreed first food shipment to France (see p. 19). President Roosevelt cabled Marshal Pétain New Year's greetings (in reply to a cable...