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Culture-conscious citizens of smaller U. S. cities hunger for high-class music. But few of them ever have a chance to tell a diva from a bettelhooper.* Ordering music a la carte, as music lovers in big cities do, takes expert picking & choosing. Because they want to be sure of the quality of their imported music, small-town U. S. music lovers have long bought it in packaged lots from large, nationally organized concert chains...
...since Racine. He was also the only art critic of his day who recognized the greatness of Daumier. He died, broken by drink and opium, in 1867. Though not precisely a Bible to modern man, the Flowers of Evil has been abundantly profaned by illustrators who interpreted it as high-class pornography...
Altogether the battered Harlowmen will tomorrow stack up against their third really high-class team in a row. Not the beef trust that Cornell was, nor boasting quite such satellites as wingback Peck or end Holland, Army is, nevertheless, a high-riding organization, led by Wilson and Long. The Service elevens always hit the hardest of all the teams, as any player will tell, and this Army team will certainly give Bob Green and his men a real Soldiers Field battle...
Nudism, as an organized movement, started in Germany in the early 20s, went ahead by serious leaps and dignified bounds until 1933, when the German body put on a brown shirt. From Germany the cult spread to France, England and the U. S., where it was popularly regarded as high-class burlesque. By 1934, however, there were 300,000 serious-minded nudists in the U. S., and the movement gathered momentum until the California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego three years ago, where 2,000,000 sightseers at 25? a head peeked over a fence into a nudist corral...
...KIMBALL Ogden, Utah "A high-class magazine" like Scribner's would be tickled to death to publish a Hemingway story. (Let disgusted Reader Kimball note well who published the book...