People, Nov. 28, 1938

In a squabbly session of the Supreme Court, young TVA Attorney James Lawrence Fly was repeatedly bumbled at by Justice Pierce Butler, made a retort such as Supreme Court justices seldom hear: "Your Honor, the point seems perfectly clear except in Your Honor's mind."

To perplexed Parisian newshawks Gertrude Stein explained a libretto she has just completed for her second opera,* a Steinish version of Faust: Faust "sells his soul over and over again hoping to go to hell. He kills his boy and dog to really sin and go to hell and is turned...

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