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...ranks are filled by Harvard's diverse post-war recruits, the alumni will expand into even greater areas geographically and socially. The activities will mirror the serious devotion of men who have embodied about their own alms mater respect and concern for high standards in education. The depth and scope of this interest, which goes beyond nostalgia and memories, is, perhaps, the true sign of the Harvard...
Back to Manhattan from her first postwar inspection of her villa in Capri came best-dressed Mrs. Harrison Williams, in what the tabloid Daily Mirror called "a pale beige wool dress, with a deeper-than-usual neckline and longer-than-usual skirt." How had she found things? Said she: "A great many things are gone, including a most wonderful wine cellar. Not a bottle remains." But she kept her chin up. "C'est la guerre," said Mrs. Williams...
...soon began to feel as though he were living under a magnifying glass. The tabloid New York Daily News began referring to him as a Love Child. The tabloid Daily Mirror, disregarding facts, made up a raffish story of its own. It suggested that Mrs. Greer had been secretly married to the late George V of England, concluded that Harold Segur was probably the Duke of Windsor's half brother. Segur grew more & more confused...
Author Romains once explained that the grand strategy of Men of Good Will was to "reflect a whole generation." That it does, as faithfully, as arbitrarily and almost as indiscriminately as a mirror set up in a public square. The Seventh of October takes its title from the last day in Romains' logbook, in Paris in 1933. Citizens yawn, rise, go to work. A girl visits her lover. An Englishman blushingly discusses sex. A priest talks about politics. Poincaré is ill, the U.S. debt is unpaid, Hitler is kicking up a row in Germany, and 25 years...
Even a nickel wasn't worth five cents any more. In a survey of Manhattan, the Daily Mirror found that a candy bar cost 7?, shoelaces were two for 15?. In a penny arcade, slot-machine psychoanalysis was 2? throw. Quipped one shopkeeper, overhauling his price lists on patent medicines: "If you experience stomach distress due to hyperacidity, it will now cost...