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...fond cousinly gesture the borrowing of John T. McCutcheon's cartoon was significant. Actually Cousin Joe had little need for borrowed isolationist cartooning. The Daily News's own Pulitzer Prizewinning, Kansas-born Cartoonist Clarence Daniel Batchelor had already created the most potent anti-war cartoon of all-the two creepy, skeleton-faced, voluptuous harlots labeled World War II ("Uncle Sap's New Girl Friend") and her fuller-blown mother, World War I (see cuts). Of late these ghoulish temptresses have appeared on Publisher Patterson's editorial page with almost comic-strip frequency-graphically timed to make...
...some people suggest that under the terms of H.R. 1776, Mr. Roosevelt might give away part or all of the Navy. How could could anybody be so dumb, says Mr. Roosevelt. Don't people know he is fond of the Navy? Then why would he give it away? Why, he would just as soon stand on his head...
...husband is the father of his wife's child, expose impostors who claim in heritances. As an index of heredity, facial resemblance is now deemed very unreliable. Eye color has scientific support but leaves too much room for reasonable judicial doubts. Fingerprints are only vaguely significant. Geneticists are fond of earlobe characteristics but do not yet understand their distribution patterns. Dr. Wiener declared that the most practical means of determining parentage can be found in the inheritance patterns of the four human blood groups. "It is a simple matter," says Dr. Wiener, "to ascertain what groups can occur...
Waiting to marry Miss Bishop in the beginning is fond, soft-spoken Sam Peters (William Gargan). He is still waiting at the end. Meanwhile, Miss Bishop almost forgets her academic career when she falls in love with a dashing young lawyer, Delbert Thompson (Donald Douglas). When he gets her man-mad cousin in trouble she gives him up, goes back into her shell. Next time she thinks of marrying it is a soulful professor at Midwestern John Stevens (Sidney Blackmer), but he turns out to have a wife in Virginia. Miss Bishop will not be unfaithful to her mission...
Unlike the pictures that hang on the walls of other Manhattan galleries, 460 Park Avenue's portraits are not for sale. They are samples. Each sample is by a different portrait painter. Most of 460 Park Avenue's clients are bank presidents, business executives, hotel managers, or fond family folk who want a portrait of husband, wife or child. By looking over Mmes. Shaw & Duplaix's samples, they can decide which artist is their dish. Prices range from $50 (for a drawing job by Portraitist Hester Merwin) to $7,000 (for a high-class likeness, John Sargent...