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Artist August Henkel had a glib explanation for everything. He produced a photograph of mustached Franz Reichelt, pioneer parachutist killed in a leap from the Eiffel Tower, which had struck him as a "stunning design," formed the basis of the Stalin-like figure. The two Leftist pilots, said he, symbolized the spirit of self-sacrifice in aeronautical advance rather than political ideology. As for the red star, some one of his many assistants had probably made a slip. Lieut. Colonel Brehon Burke Somervell, New York City's driving WPAdministrator, promptly ordered three of the four murals taken down, cremated...
Accompanied by a staff of art historians and architectural experts, the Führer visited the Opera, strolled through the galleries of the half-emptied Louvre, went to the top of the Eiffel Tower where a swastika waved, toured Montmartre. It was all very interesting to a man who had never been outside Greater Germany (except for two State visits to Italy) before...
Largest to date was the Experimenter, a craft in which house carpenters as well as boat builders had collaborated. Her four keels were laid on the principle of a catamaran. On her two lofty basketwork masts, which looked like Eiffel Towers, the resourceful professor planned to rig square sails which would unfurl, furl at the touch of a button. The freeze-up in the valley had made him rush his plans, and under bare baskets the Experimenter buzzed off among the gathering ice-cakes, pushed by her twin Diesel engines. It was New Year...
...Lenin." But they hastily order "the smallest, dirtiest room in the hotel" when Moscow sends Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) to check up. She is an unsmiling young Russian, with a delightful Swedish accent, who announces that love is a chemical reaction, wants to know at once how much steel the Eiffel Tower contains. At Count Leon's (Melvyn Douglas) smart bachelor apartment, Ninotchka shocks his staid old butler by asking, "Does he beat you?" and by urging that all wealth be shared equally. As the butler indignantly refuses to share his lifetime savings with his bankrupt employer, she says...
...Nazis, who started from scratch in 1933, have an edge in modern guns, superior to hoary French models. The Germans use a new 105 mm. howitzer while the French rock along with antiquated Seventy-fives. Some professionals also contend that French rifles are out-of-date, "tall as the Eiffel Tower," hence difficult to conceal, whereas the Germans use a short carbine that snuggles neatly into shallow trenches and shell holes; that German anti-aircraft equipment is excellent, while the British, who need it more, are just beginning to approach bare minimum safety strength...