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Cleanup. In Puente, Calif., burglars broke into H. L. Underwood's house, took everything, including the kitchen sink...
Down the Drain. The mood of Erich Maria Remarque's new novel (Book-of-the-Month Club choice for February) is quiet desperation. Most of its characters are émigrés of polyglot nationalities. Its setting is Paris, the sink in which most of them have been stranded before being washed down the drain. The time is the eve of World...
Loving care went into selecting and photographing such effective minor details as Manhattan streets on a rainy night, Miss Bennett's slatternly Greenwich Village apartment with its cigaret butts in a sink full of dirty dishes, Robinson's gloomy Brooklyn apartment where the sound of the neighbors' radio seeps up through the floor like a cold draft. But the chill look of reality in the sets only emphasizes the two-dimensional unreality of the characters who walk through them...
...There isn't much time. . . . Don't, I implore you, sink too deep, too far, into that famous English privacy. . . . Fleet the time carelessly [in] your slippers and armchair . . . go off with the girl and enjoy the loneliest possible holiday. . . . But when you come back, be a real citizen and not a hermit in a bungalow. . . . Remember that we are in history and are not merely watching it stream past. . . . I declare to you that I would rather see this whole island turned inside out and upside down every ten years, with whole cities pulled down and rebuilt...
...Perry County, Ky., a candidate for sheriff thumbed a banjo and sang a long ballad about a cabin boy on the ship Golden Willow Tree. The cabin boy had been promised the captain's daughter in marriage if he would sink a rival ship, The Roverie. The cabin boy "bored nine holes" in the Roverie and then...