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More exacting than the Yale Review, less staid than the Virginia Quarterly, richer than Ohio's new Kenyan Review, The Southern Review has applied no standards save excellence, has been subject to no political pressure whatever (Louisiana's politicians are apparently oblivious of the magazine). In more than one instance, its support has enabled a distinguished writer to live in frugal independence...
Preparation for the biggest event of the Freshman year, the Jubilee, are reaching fever pitch today with the complete transformation of the staid Harvard Union into a balloon-decked dance hall...
...Fort Benning, Ga., where new ways and weapons are tested, the soldiers of this new Army acted pretty much as sol diers always have. On their nights off they sought liquor and girls in the dollar-houses and tawdry taverns of staid old Columbus, Ga., or in the honky-tonk and juke joints across the Chattahoochee River in wild, wide-open Phenix City, Ala. The liquor was there, but the girls were gone or going, lining the roadsides in their bright dresses to bum rides to fairer pastures. This seemed strange behavior, for troops by the thousand were assembling...
...Pennsylvania Dutch parlor. On the first floor are the supplementary study collections: ceramics, glass, textiles, laces, metals, ivories, etc. The period rooms are the museum's pride. One of Director Kimball's favorites is an English Tudor room from a hunting lodge of Henry VIII. Its donor, staid Publisher William L. McLean of the staid Philadelphia Bulletin, would turn in his grave if he could hear genial Fiske Kimball halt in it, boom out: "This may be the very room in which Queen Elizabeth was conceived...
...paintings, prints, drawings and pieces of sculpture in the Academy show, 331 were by nonmembers. All 525 had a staid, collective conformity. To Academicians, as usual, went the pick of the 16 prizes. Painter Abram Poole got a $750 Altman Prize for Young Dancer, a demure Victorian damsel in a flowing pink dress. To the new president, tweedy, grey-haired Hobart Nichols, went an award for Winter Pattern, one of his customary snow-covered landscapes. Said pleased President Nichols: "The Academy is like a pendulum to a clock-it assures a rational, regular, orderly progress. It has no room...