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...Lampoon has laid an egg,--again. With its usual feeble attempt at humor, it has bungled itself into the national limelight by a ruthless and unwarranted attack on one of the finer things in life, Ann Sheridan. Of course, anyone with any discrimination knows that Miss Sheridan is hotter than West, greater than Garbo, and the oomphiest...
...goatee, smiling with his teeth. "I am giving Martin Dies an absolutely clean bill of health." That gave the Committee something to think about. Flustered, they postponed their questioning until next day. Then, having stoked the fire and readied the frying pan, in they popped Mr. Pelley. But the hotter the fire, the more Mr. Pelley seemed to enjoy...
From then on, the picture suggests a graph of jungle jitters. Cinemactress Bennett provides the fatal virus. Young Douglas Fairbanks runs up the highest curve. To make matters hotter, the jungle (which covered 45,000 square feet of a Universal lot) teems with hostile Indians. To make doubly sure that it is all right for Douglas Fairbanks to go off with Joan Bennett, the Indians kill her husband and it turns out that he was a bigamist...
Messrs. Warren & Co. followed the scheme laid down by agile-minded Jimmy Byrnes in the Senate: let the opposition talk its head off, then vote the bill through as is. The House version of the Great Debate sounded hotter than the Senate's -chiefly because of the necessary brevity of the speeches-but actually meant no more. That the vote was in the bag was conclusively demonstrated when wily old Speaker William Brockman Bankhead, Hamlet of the House, took the floor for a passionate defense of the measure: near the finish-post, he always cheers the winner...
...British atrocities" during the Boer War some 40 years ago included mixing powdered glass in the food of Boer children penned in British prison camps. Last week His Majesty's Government cited "this shameless propaganda, which is wholly without foundation" as its reason for suddenly rebutting with much hotter and much fresher atrocity charges. Off official London presses rolled another White Paper, entitled Papers Concerning the Treatment of German Nationals in Germany, 1938-1939. It was filled with details of torture and sadism in contemporary Nazi prison camps...