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Alicia Patterson Simpson Brooks Guggenheim, thrice-married favorite daughter of Captain Joe Patterson, last week all but called her father a liar. In her year-old tabloid, the Hempstead (L.I.) Newsday, pretty, 34-year-old Alicia wrote an editorial, THAT 80 PER CENT, about isolationist claims that "80% of the American people are against our going into the war." It began: "You remember the old gag: 'Figures don't lie-but liars sometimes figure.' " The 80% claim has been pushed particularly by the Chicago Tribune, published by her cousin Colonel Robert McCormick, and the New York Daily...
Little Paul Joseph Goebbels, the lying official mouthpiece of the world's No. 1 liar, had some interesting remarks to make on lies by radio last week...
...table. He warned Japan that, while Britain had no desire to pick a quarrel, she would not let her interests in the Far East be set aside. He warned the U.S. that Hitler would soon make a specious peace offer, which Britain would reject ("For sheer efficiency as a liar, Hitler stands alone in history...
...bonfire. Somebody asked Spivey if he had raped Mrs. Peacock. He said he had not seen her in five years. Somebody asked Spivey if he knew where his potato patch was, near there. When Spivey said he did not, the man said, "You're a God-damned liar" and hit him on the head with the butt of his pistol. The man swung again, missed, hit a white man beside...
Into the office of the London tuberculosis specialist Sir Colenso Ridgeon comes a beautiful woman (Katharine Cornell). She wants the doctor to cure her husband, a brilliant painter and incorrigible amoralist-a liar, cadger and thief in practical matters. Through some of the clankingest plot mechanics in history, Sir Colenso is forced to choose between saving the life of this caddish genius and that of a poor, upright little Government doctor. The issue is complicated by Sir Colenso's desire for the painter's wife. Finally he decides to abandon the painter-only to be spurned...