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Little Japs are infiltrating U.S. factories, beaming and slavering with wicked satisfaction but doing no good to Japan. They are all versions of one & the same little Jap, Douglas. Aircraft Co.'s gargoyle-like cartoon character, "The Tokio Kid." Created as part of the company's drive to reduce tool breakage and waste, the Kid appears on posters that show broken drills, cracked cogwheels, mixed-up rivets, piles of scrap. "Bust tool make soooo happy, thank you," is the main theme of his left-handed sentiments...
Douglas workers were startled when the Tokio Kid first appeared, but soon adopted him. About a dozen posters since Pearl Harbor have shown him with teeth and claws growing progressively longer and sharper, a brow becoming more apelike, ears more pointed. A worm crawling out of a huge front tooth was eliminated, after one try, as a little too gruesome...
...held out a little of the dough he had collected on jewelry, and he was arrested for larceny. That was the kind of break Eli got. Eli dropped the jewelry business - he had been let off with a suspended sentence - and tried night club singing. His wife took their kid and left him. Then he met Madeline...
...organ has not entirely lost its former spirit. Continuing "to foster non-political student writing," the editors have suffered obscure poetry and bad cartoons to remain in the new environment, and weighty deliberations are illustrated with bedraggled rag-dolls that could have been drawn by Munroe Leaf's kid sister...
...worth of intoxicated notes from his ram-shackle clarinet, after playing most of the afternoon at the Ken's rival session. Peewee hadn't been too exciting at the Ken, I understand--something about the other men not playing in the right key. But with his colleague Kaminsky to kid him along he gave of his knocked-out best...