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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Sleuths of the Department for Struggle, etc. raided a shop operated by one Anna Lazaryeva, discovered $9,250 worth of yarn, 150 sweaters and $7,500 in cash; a few doors away a second shop was discovered producing 100 blouses a day. The operators, said Krokodil, suffer from no shortage: state textile-industry employees swipe huge amounts of wool from government plants, resell it at a tidy profit to black-marketeers...
Even minor details about Al Smith and his campaign-his dudish brown derby, his Sidewalks of New York campaign song, the Bowery touches in his speech ("raddio," "horspital," etc.)-grated on Americans west of the Hudson River, emphasizing for them his alien, big-city background. Kansas' William Allen White, widely heeded editor of the Emporia Gazette, expressed the fears and suspicions of a broad, bipartisan segment of the U.S. when he wrote that the "whole puritan civilization, which has built a sturdy, orderly nation, is threatened by Smith...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:307 p.m.). Rare films of a rare time and place, Paris in the '20s, re-create a Who's Who of the Lost Generation: Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Colette, Josephine Baker, Mistinguett, Marilyn Miller, Harpo Marx, etc...
...takers defied barking dogs, splashed through floods, endured insults and threats to earn their $13-a-day fee. At one dwelling out of four, the census takers left long questionnaires to be filled out and mailed. From these, the Census Bureau hopes to count freezers, radios and TV sets, etc., will make a study of transportation habits, age groups, in come and population shifts...
...heroic qualities of human nature in adversity." Admitting the "negative charge" in Tennessee's other plays-he calls Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "a symphony of evil"-Dakin nonetheless finds an implied positive in each. Rape of a sister-in-law (A Streetcar Named Desire), homosexuality (Cat, etc.), cannibalism (Suddenly, Last Summer), garden-variety adultery (Orpheus Descending) and castration (Sweet Bird of Youth} may not be radiant with uplift, but "there can be no valid moral objection to the exposure of this sort of sin in human nature." The only Tennessee Williams product ever condemned...