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January 14, 1939

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Profiles (The Omelet of A. Macleish)

Edmund Wilson

Satire on Archibald Macleish's "Land of the Free."

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Oh, Where Is My Wandering Brooch Tonight?

Geoffrey T. Hellman

Salvador Dali predicts in Vogue that the day of stationary jewelry is over. In the future, jewels will creep, crawl, flow, and wiggle all over the best …

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