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Again the grumble of discontented stomachs causes some headache to trouble-ridden John Harvard. Again his unruly crowd of pupils clamors for richer foods terrestrial, as if the fare of Learning were not enough to still the scholar's appetite. The battle-cry of Harvard's venerable past--"behold, the butter stinketh!"--again resounds in academic ears, but in a modern version that may well produce streamlined results...
...other function the Party has served: as a more or less accurate gauge of the country's fevers. In 1912, when the U. S. was beset by restless Labor, debt-ridden farmers and a discontented West, the vote for a Socialist for President shot up. Up it shot again in 1932, with the persistent depression. In periods of complacency (1928, 1936), the Socialists are nowhere. Last week, as the U. S. shivered with war chills, ached with unemployment, the Socialist Party convened to adopt a platform, nominate a President, take the U. S. temperature...
Faculty and students at St. John's are excited by their work and by the revival of the debt-ridden little college that almost died. They sharply reject the adjective "experimental" as applied to them, and consider the New Program as "the re-establishment of the original college with its original function of intellectual freedom and discipline...
...when they travesty them, they are delightful. The Piccoli take-off of a red-hot Negro jazz band going into spasms and contortions of rhythm is brilliant burlesque. So is their exaggeratedly alcoholic and rumba-ridden picture of a Havana nightspot. And the temperamental concert pianist, frenziedly pounding away at the Second Hungarian Rhapsody, affectedly fiddling with his coat tails, orchidaceously turning the pages of his music, is not only a miracle of string-pulling, but a hilarious parody of 1,001 humbugs who have infested the concert halls of the world...
...Producer Lasky hopped in a plane, took off for Nashville. Down to Nashville to meet him next day went Sergeant York. With him was his legal battery, canny Country Lawyer John Hale. Lawyer Hale had rocked Producer Lasky at the first of their three conferences by rejecting his clause-ridden Hollywood contract hands down. Drawled Hale: "What we want is a plain old Tennessee contract that simply says what you shall do and what the Sergeant shall...