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April 28, 1997
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Europe: An Introduction [ABSTRACT]
- Signed comment about Europe... Suppose the world were an animal curled up into a ball, like a threatened armadillo, and you wanted to blow its brains out: the best way to do so would be to put the barrel of your gun against Europe and pull the trigger. The United…
April 28, 1997
The Talk of the Town
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Foreign Exchange [ABSTRACT]
- Talk story about European intellectual contributions to America. European intellectuals--French ones especially--have been telling the world's leaders what to do for as long as mind remembers. Voltaire served Frederick the Great of Prussia, Descartes attended Queen Christina of Sweden, Diderot went to Catherine the Great of Russia; she…
October 31, 1977
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Comment [ABSTRACT]
- These past few weeks, we have turned our attention to the newspapers in a manner not habitual with us - asking the hard question "How are we - all of us - doing? We have not, it seems, done well. We have failed to live up to our advance billing. We have failed…
October 30, 1943
Fiction
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1943, the Year of Crisis [ABSTRACT]
- Conversation between a couple of young, well-dressed girls on a Fifth Avenue bus. They were going shopping; one of them had a blank check on Sak's. They spoke about clothes and parties; admired a young Australian flier but agreed that all the nice boys go into the Navy. A…
April 06, 1935
A Reporter at Large
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SKYROCKETS [ABSTRACT]
- REPORTER AT LARGE about experiments with skyrockets conducted on Staten Island by the American Rocket Society. Mr. G. Edward Pendray is president of the Society…
April 25, 1931
The Talk of the Town
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"Quandary" [ABSTRACT]
- Crisis--what to do with a bottle of Madeira left to the Society in 1831, to be opened one hundred years after. Of course, the donor didn't forsee prohibition back in Andrew Jackson's time. Mr. Calvin Coolidge is the president, and Justice Rugg, a director. Both gentlemen have intimated they…
April 29, 1996
Comment
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THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN CENTURY [ABSTRACT]
- Comment for the black issue about African-Americans in the U.S.A.... The story of America, according to the narrative enshrined in our civic religion, goes something like this. A great wilderness was gradually populated by waves of hardy immigrants fleeing the oppressions of the Old World to build a better…
December 10, 1949
The Talk of the Town
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Distinctive [ABSTRACT]
- Talk story about an interview with Elbridge W. Stein, vice-president of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners, an organization of 18 members who are consulted in the tracing of the authorship of anonymous letters, and detecting forgeries. Tells how they work. Typewriter manufacturers change their type-face from…
December 17, 1932
Profiles
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Czar of Song-I [ABSTRACT]
- Profile of Gene Buck, the president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. He controls and corners the supply of popular and jazz music. The society controls hundreds of copyrights covering all modern music of value to broadcasters. Tells of his early climb and how the society was…