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...dance and song achievement" goes, it was nothing extraordinary for that pair. There were no great song hits and no unusual dances. But there was wit, and grimacing, and cold-shouldering to Astaire-Rogers perfection...
Collaborators are somewhat in the position of two men trying to see the same object through a single pair of binoculars: when it is in focus for one, it is blurred and out of perspective to the other. Two years ago two British writers, one a Glasgow slum dweller, the other a London journalist, turned their imaginative spyglass on the squalid, violent Gorbols section of Glasgow, on the south bank of the Clyde. Last week they reported on what they had seen, in a strange uneven book that suggested they could not quite agree on their findings. They saw horrors...
...pair proceeded to a hotel where Father Coughlin found occasion to declare that a choice between Presidential Nominees Roosevelt and Landon was a choice "between carbolic acid and rat poison...
...dairymen made least happy by the State scale and the summer's drought were a pair of brothers named Stanley and Felix Piseck. Born in Peru, Ill. of Polish parents, they, still own a farm there, have lived for the past 16 years near Poland, N. Y. where they operate four farms. They led New York's milk strike of 1933 which failed to enlist solid support. This year their agitation for better milk prices has found much more sympathy. They claim 45,000 of the State's 1,000,000 dairy farmers as members of their...
...within the catalogs, a flood of orders flowed from the town and the surrounding countryside: old Herman Gutterman got some new charred oak kegs so he could put up a new batch of moonshine by the time his wife got out of jail. Red Currie got number 45F8575, a pair of stylish Sizzle Pants for $3.65. Sylvester Merrick, colored, got a new clothesline. Ira Pirtle ordered some rubber collars ("easily cleaned with a damp cloth,") number 33F8244, at three for 60?. The Widow Holcomb sent for a bottle of Youth Tone black hair dye, 8F3882, for $2.29. -Behind these orders...