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...Yalemen Staples and Harney rid their minds of the idea that pornography connotes cheapness, showiness, vulgarity. TIME applied "pornographic" to Composer Stravinsky as it would to Writers D. H.. Lawrence or James Joyce.-ED. Thanks from India...
...Where the White House now stands was once called "foggy bottom," a malaria-infested swamp. At President Hoover's request, the Senate last week voted him $60,000 to rid the vicinity of mosquitoes...
...racing stable, a Cadillac, a Marmon, a Chrysler, a wardrobe of $150 tailored suits. Suddenly, last August, Patrolman Garrett was reduced to a pavement beat. Said Writer Liggett: "It is the belief of Boston newspaper reporters that Garrett was 'bagman' for certain higher-ups who finally got rid of him because they were not satisfied with their percentage of the split." Patrolman Garrett refused to patrol, asked a vacation, got it. Returning, he asked retirement with a pension; he said his skull had been cracked on duty. He was retired, pensioned. Writer Liggett suggested the skullcracking might have...
...Next Room (First National). This is slightly better fun thau most program mystery-melodramas. It begins in 1889, with a carefully dated prolog showing a husband of the period getting rid of his wife's lover in a mysterious and dreadful manner. Newspaper clippings bring up to date the dark history of the Manhattan house where this happening took place to 1929, where the modern mystery phase begins, involving the usual detectives, reporters, antique cabinets, stolen jewels, corpses. Best shot: the farewell of the lover...
...Next Room (First National). This is slightly better fun thau most program mystery-melodramas. It begins in 1889, with a carefully dated prolog showing a husband of the period getting rid of his wife's lover in a mysterious and dreadful manner. Newspaper clippings bring up to date the dark history of the Manhattan house where this happening took place to 1929, where the modern mystery phase begins, involving the usual detectives, reporters, antique cabinets, stolen jewels, corpses. Best shot: the farewell of the lover...