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Parrying the Line. His most vivid chapter is on the perils of dating. It sounds like one of those strange Indian rites in which warriors are permitted to wear feathers only after they have gotten a certain number of wounds. "What distinguishes the 'date' from other conversation is a mixture of persiflage, flattery, wit and love-making which was formerly called a 'line' but which each generation dubs with a new name. The 'line' is an individual variation of a commonly accepted pattern which is considered to be representative of a facet...
Reading about the Cincinnati Enquirer-Westbrook Pegler feud [TIME, March 1], I noticed you termed the Enquirer "Democratic." After several years of reading the Enquirer, I've either gotten the wrong slant on things, or else TIME is wrong. About the only thing in the Enquirer that approaches being democratic is the comic section...
Nonsense, retorted Al (Li'l Abner) Capp. "Comic strippers are storytellers. . . . Dickens might have written in comic books if he could have gotten a contract...
Rome's operagoers remember Giuseppe Di Stefano as the handsome young tenor who sang Manon one night when terrible-tempered Tenor Lauri-Volpi fitfully refused to go on. But even before that, Di Stefano had gotten ovations that reached the ears of U.S. booking agents...
...Marquess of Queensberry; for hero-worshipers he had the right tone of awe ("Now here comes J. Pierpont Morgan himself . . . [and] you see the lightning behind the brows, and sense the thunder in the voice"). To the honest, indignant poor, Runyon gave descriptions of Capone's ill-gotten silken underwear...