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...Plaza to make them "look like new." Such treatment would remove the bronzes' cherished patina, which comes only from long exposure to atmosphere, rain, dust and pigeon droppings. Tearing off his blue smock, Sculptor Donato dashed from his studio shouting: "This time I am going to give them hell...
...that afternoon as Dr. Buchman was motoring to fulfill this engagement, the gasoline feed line of his automobile clogged, precious minutes passed and finally Grouper H. Kenaston Twitchell read the Founder's words into the microphone. Outstanding birthday greeting received by Dr. Buchman was from Groupers in Hell, Norway, who cabled: "Hell's bells are ringing, our hearts are singing" in honor of "Frank's fifty-eighth...
Comfortable Hell...
Like Kipling's Tomlinson, turned back at Heaven's portals and Hell gate because he was "neither spirit nor spirk," John Middleton Murry floats in a half-world of his own. Most derided, most vilified man of letters in contemporary England, his respectable reputation as a critic has been overshadowed by his notoriety as a candid friend. His enemies cannot forgive him for having been the husband-of the late Katherine Mansfield, the intimate friend of the late D. H. Lawrence, and making literary capital out of both relationships. Much of his recent writing they have found unpleasantly...
...insight, when courage of judgment, are worth all the names in all the books," went out of his study to take a look for himself. His subjective-factual report covers three years (1932-35), two countries (the U. S. and Russia). Parts of the U. S. he found like Hell, parts of Russia like Purgatory; but he came to a patriotic conclusion. He tells of an election night in Manhattan, Roosevelt II's inaugural parade in Washington, Bernard Shaw's speech at the Metropolitan Opera House, a Buchmanite mass meeting, Jane Addams and Chicago's Hull House...