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...Author Gale's stories there is a vein of iron sentimentality; even in her bravest, there is a grimly sentimental irony. Yet sentimentality is only the approximate, not the exact word to describe a humanity that prevents each of Author Gale's terse episodes from being merely a brilliant chart of the disasters and deep triumphs of people in life...
...census report, a map and a weather chart were used in picking his home, and the inhabitants of this most average of cities than selected their average citizen. One wonders what convulsions seized the place how lar the average men departed from their normaley, dressing themselves and their households in Indian costumes or resigning from all their lodges in order to avoid being singled out for national, and unaverage ame, and how one of their number was unkindly taken unawares...
...McClure Newspaper Syndicate last week sent to able businessmen a chart listing the largest spenders of advertising money in the U. S. during 1926. The list...
That two such smart-chart publications should have thus jointly trifled with the bachelorhood of M. Doumergue seemed, to Frenchmen in the U. S., inexcusable...
WHOOPS, DEARIE!?Peter Arno? Simon & Schuster ($1.75). Their weekly parade in the New Yorker (Manhattan smart-chart) has long been an event?Pansy Smiff and Abagail Flusser of the muffs and flounces and awry plumed bonnets, their potato noses high in air, their cavernous, Cruikshankian mouths thrown open in something like...