Chicago Seems A Big City

No Ascetic Can Be Considered Reliably Sane.

The Science Of Booby-trapping Has Taken A Good Deal Of The Fun Out Of Following Hot On The Enemy's Heels.

To The Parisians, And Especially To The Children, All Americans Are Now 'heros Du Cinema.' This Is Particularly Disconcerting To Sensitive War Correspondents, If Any, Aware, As They Are, That These Innocent Thanks Belong To Those American Combat Troops Who Won The Beachhead And Then Made The Breakthrough. There Are Few Such Men In Paris.

In The Light Of What Proust Wrote With So Mild A Stimulus, It Is The World's Loss That He Did Not Have A Heartier Appetite. On A Dozen Gardiner's Island Oysters, A Bowl Of Clam Chowder, A Peck Of Steamers, Some Bay Scallops, Three Sauteed Soft-shelled Crabs, A Few Ears Of Fresh Picked Corn, A Thin Swordfish Steak Of Generous Area, A Pair Of Lobsters, And A Long Island Duck, He Might Have Written A Masterpiece.

Any City May Have One Period Of Magnificence, Like Boston Or New Orleans Or San Francisco, But It Takes A Real One To Keep Renewing Itself Until The Past Is Perennially Forgotten.