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...that such things were impossible in the world of 1941. An organization of U. S. fire-watchers, trained to extinguish incendiary capsules, would be part of the program, but far down on the list. The first thing would be to organize civilians for the defense program's duller essentials: to meet the problems of new cantonments, vast new industries. Adequate housing must be established in little towns that were becoming seething centres of activity; health problems, which always follow the migrations of workers, must be dealt with; recreational facilities must be set up as counter-attractions to red-light...
...second place Franny isn't too keen about spending two more dreary weeks of training. Paddling over a mile a day up and down the pool is boring enough when the rest of the team is doing it with you, but when you're all alone it's duller than Monday night at the Raymor...
Earl Carroll Vanities, eleventh edition, is probably much the same show that the first edition was, or the fifth. But it seems infinitely duller. Carroll still has an eye for good-looking girls, but gone is all sense of showmanship, glitter, pace. An interminably long revue, and a slave to routine, the new Vanities rotates a song number, a ham comedian act and a leg parade all evening, like crops...
...plot for this drama might well have been concocted by Heinrich Himmler in one of his duller moments; the scenery could have been done by Painter Adolf Hitler suddenly turned Cubist; the dialogue could have been written by a slightly tipsy Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. All in all, the Russian act that led up to its invasion of Finland last week was a weird parody, rather than a Slavish plagiarism, of Nazi methods...
Before the House stretched a week's brass-knuckle debate. Until the last chap ter, the Senate's had been a different and duller story. For three stodgy weeks that body had shifted uneasily about in the un accustomed formal garments of full-dress debate. But last week the Senate, almost to a man, happily shucked its tight collar, stripped off the white gloves. The nodding press gallery awoke, and in five days of catch-as-catch-can heckling the Senate finished its task, passed the Pittman Bill after 26 days and 1,000,000 words...