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...Gradually tortuously, the anxious reader discovers their histories. All have come from poor beginnings to comparative success. All of them have been unhappily married. All of them are enough wiser than they were to be able to philosophize about it. And at the end Marta goes back to her comic strip, Russ to his job and the doctor's sentence hanging over him, Pauline to the thought of her dead children and the possibility of once again leaning on a broken reed...
...Armistice Day six years ago the officials of Princeton University set off a firecracker under the athletic world by severing connections with Harvard because of an unfortunate Lampoon editorial. The break was, however, due to more than a broadside in the college comic; it was caused by a crisis in relations that had been badly frayed by lack of tact, sportsmanship, and sanity. The editorials reprinted below are all too reliable witnesses to that; there is a malevolence betrayed in them which one feels, cannot return. The day of football rallies, of graduate agitation for a larger and finer stadium...
Prosperity (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). If you took any comic strip joke about a mother-in-law, multiplied it by two, added a bank failure, four platitudes about the silver lining, and a vaudeville fox terrier you would have all the ingredients of Prosperity except the one which makes it human and amusing. This ingredient is Marie Dressier, who always impersonates grunting, sympathetic, noisy, witty, violent, immensely courageous old ladies but somehow manages to do it with enough vitality to make them seem alive. This time she is Maggie Warren, a grizzled widow who runs her husband's bank until...
Every Thanksgiving Day in Manhattan, R. H. Macy & Co. stages a parade of huge comic balloons designed by Tony Sarg. When the procession ends the balloons are released. Cash prizes are paid for their return. But after famed Clarence Chamberlin snared a yellow-&-black dragon on the wingtip of his plane last year and collected $25, Macy's announced that aviators in flight were disqualified as balloon-hunters...
...attack. It hopes that The Lampoon may regain solvency. If it doesn't, "the present crisis may well constitute a warning to other undergraduate publications." These mutual attributions of disaster may faintly indicate the loss that threatens the republic of letters if such precious manifestations of the undergraduate comic spirit are to vanish. In "college humor" there is a subtle, ethereal quality that differentiates it from all other brands. What, for example, could be sweeter, gentler, more Lamblike than the intimation of The Brown Jug, Brown University's jester, that the Holy Cross footballers dug their teeth into the corpuses...