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This fellow runs into an old friend at a high-class party. "Have you made it?" he asks. "He nodded. 'America,' he said simply. I grasped him by the shoulders and looked into his eyes. "Tell me, George, are you corrupted?' 'Mercy me, no,' he replied. 'I am daily nobler.' 'Oh, happy day!' I cried joyously. My worries were over; money did not corrupt. Now, without reservations, I could begin the long climb to riches. 'Tell me about your long, painful climb to riches,' I said. 'I married it,' said George...
...Paradox is that the women ask the men to dance. In Hamburg's railroad station is the Treffpunkt agency: for 25 marks ($5.95) a man can leaf through a photo album, select a girl, arrange a date. Says proud Treffpunkt Manager Max Pollack: "All my girls are high-class, and you'd be surprised how many of them find husbands this way. My turnover is high...
...festival could relax. With justifiable pride, Rudolf Bing could say: "We have sold a quarter of a million tickets in three weeks, not for a sporting event, but for Mozart operas, a Greek tragedy [John Gielgud's production of Robinson Jeffers' Medea], Hamlet in French and high-class orchestral music...
...even suggested an operation which, as the N.Y. Daily News gleefully phrased it, would have made him "forever sterile." Artie, who is quoted by Kathleen's lawyer as stating that "any woman who has enough money and still expects her husband to support her is nothing but a high-class prostitute," also went into the financial side of his marriage: "She is trying to blackmail me. I know the defendant to be a money-mad extortioner." And anyway, he added, neither of their Mexican divorces was legal, and so he figures that he is still the lawful wedded husband...
This little book, a worthy counterpoise to Rebecca West's The Meaning of Treason (TIME, Dec. 8), is one of the pleasures of the season. In the guise of high-class reporting, that book was a brilliant shifting of floodlights around modern forms of an ancient depravity. In the guise of casual memoirs, Four Studies in Loyalty affirms the beauty of the contrary virtue-a virtue that may be as subtle and incalculable in its effects as a fresh scent on a spring morning...