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...centres. Only one big city upped its rate of increase: Washington, D. C., with its swelling Government employe lists. Many cities showed an actual decrease: Philadelphia, Newark, N. J., Boston, Cleveland, San Francisco. Reasons for this urban "flattening out": the depression; a renascence of the old-fashioned U. S. passion to own a home, dig in the earth; the migration of city workers to the suburbs...
...eight children in the family of a North Attleboro, Mass, blacksmith, Joe Martin began his career 50 years ago peddling papers. He turned down a scholarship at Dartmouth to go to work as a reporter, finally bought minority ownership of the North Attleboro Chronicle. With a sudden passion for politics, he got himself elected to the Massachusetts Legislature. Scotch-Irish, he talked a familiar language in Massachusetts. In 1925 he went to Congress, where he still perches -in appearance a typical small-town New England politician-scrupulous, honest, popular, potent...
...Hungarian Pianist Franz Liszt. One of the women was the Countess Marie d'Agoult. She had caused quite a scandal by leaving her husband and running away with Liszt after they had wept together over one of those novels by George Sand in which the heroines always prefer passion to domesticity. The Piffoel family was Authoress Sand and her children. Part of the confusion of genders came about because Liszt's brilliant pupil, Hermann Cohen, another of the party, insisted on wearing girl's clothes. Madame Sand insisted on wearing men's clothes. They were Romantics...
MAIGRET ABROAD-Georges Sime-non-Harcourf, Brace ($2). In Holland, the imperturbable Inspector Maigret deals with a crime of passion: the popping off of philandering Popinga. Maigret makes his pick and hands the case to Detective Pijpekamp for the kill. Proceeding then to Belgium, Maigret solves a murder at the Gai-Moulin in Liege. Principal actors are Adele, a danseuse, and two ne'er-do-well youths, always broke...
Immediate ancestors of the Tristan myth were the troubadours of Provence. They were Albigensians, heretics, and their songs, their protocols of courtly love, were simply the elaborate double-talk of a theology driven underground. With them, in the 12th Century, passion took root in Europe. Thence sprang the whole of European literature, the whole shape and vocabulary of European mysticism, the whole ferocious timbre of European war fare, the whole possibility of such megalomaniacs as Hitler, the whole suffering wreckage of European love and marriage. De Rougemont believes there is an almost universal schizophrenia, a tide rip created in millions...