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...weather would bring another epidemic this year, Director William Hallock Park of the Bureau of Laboratories of New York's Department of Health had reassuring words last week. Said he: "Experience of health authorities all over the world indicates that a community which has suffered an extensive outbreak of poliomyelitis one year will escape a recurrence for from five to ten years to come...
Kazuo Edina, editor of San Francisco's Japanese Daily News: "We consider this to be one of the Fascist adventures of some young Japanese Navy and Army officers . . I use the term Fascist as applied to an organized outbreak against a Parliamentary Government...
More sophisticated memories follow: anecdotes of George Moore; the predicament of a group of U. S. esthetes stranded in Europe at the outbreak of the War; a trip with his wife Fania Marinoff to the Bahamas, where he saw an orgiastic revival meeting of black Holy Jumpers. Sophisticate Van Vechten wondered what Huysmans would have thought of such goings-on. Black Priscilla, maid at his hotel, had no such complicated thoughts: "I'm a Baptist. ... I don't hold by those jumpers. The females jump, and the males jump after them...
...There is absolutely no reason for the present popular outbreak against crooners," exclaimed Conrad Nagel, film star in an interview last night. "In the first place, to call all tenors who sing popular songs 'crooners' is erroneous. It is distinctly wrong to classify them all under one head, because all of them that are at all advanced in their field are individual and have a particular technique which cannot be well duplicated. Crooning is an art, and should be recognized as such. Young America loves to build up an idol, making it far greater than it deserves, and then with...
...Student Council urges the whole student body to do all in its power to prevent a recurrence of any such outbreak in the future