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...become wine in the citizens' homes. These were semi-bootleg sales, unnoticed by the Prohibition Bureau. There was no advertising, only a door-to-door canvass. But last week in Milwaukee there appeared large billboard and full-page newspaper advertisements for a grape concentrate called "Vine-Glo." Beside thin-stemmed glasses of ruby and amber liquids were the words: "You can't buy it from peddlers. Not on sale at any store. Never served in any restaurant-BUT YOU CAN HAVE IT DEPENDABLY AND LEGALLY FOR USE IN YOUR OWN HOME...
Last week's concert again suggested that lonely individuals make the greatest music. The Orchestra played the Bach-Beethoven-Brahms program as if completely bewitched by the slight, grey-haired figure, swaying constantly, sometimes singing along in a thin, croaking voice. The smart audience was also hypnotized into perfect behavior. It arrived punctually, never once applauded at the wrong time, saved its coughs for intermissions. After the con cert there gathered backstage Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of the Phil harmonic Board of Directors, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Packer Charles Henry Swift and his wife Soprano Claire...
Twenty-five thousand Jewish protestants against the "Passfield Declaration" on Palestine (TIME, Nov. 3 & 10) introduced themselves by main force last week into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (capacity 20,000). Perspiring police worked furiously to thin out the crush, finally drove a police car gently but firmly across the packed arena, ejecting by this means some 500 standees...
There are no trees, no grass in Red Square, Moscow's vast bleak oblong. But at least once a year the grey granite pavement (new-laid by a firm of U. S. contractors) sprouts with the thin steel blades of thousands of bayonets. It did so last week for the 13th anniversary of the Soviet state. Hour after hour the troops filed by, impressive in their grey-brown, ankle-length overcoats while airplanes flew back and forth in formation...
...mouth, wrote good English before he could talk sense. Famed as a Princeton undergraduate for his versifying facility, like many literary Princetonians he never graduated, left college to write for TIME, of whose staff he is still a member. He also writes for The New Yorker under a thin disguise. Sandy-haired, slow-moving, slangy, like many a worse writer, like few better, he talks newspaper jargon...