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...infantry is still "Queen of Battles." But the Queen was hardly recognizable last week; she was scuttling around like a maid-of-all-work. In the incessant tug-o'-war for prestige within the Army, the cavalry, the field artillery, even the infantry were on the defensive. What had their wind up was the rapid growth, the ambitious airs of the air corps and the armored force. The Germans in conquered Europe, the British in Africa had shown what this new combat team could do-and what could happen to nations which had no team, or a poor...
...either an Englishman, Scotsman or South American. But this year the war made another exception. Canadian Charlie Yule took the job, with misgivings. While the hushed crowd of 15.000 watched, Judge Yule weeded out the entries to the four finalists: two from Purdue University, "Loyal Alumnus III" and "College Maid"; the University of Alberta's "Robin Hood" and 18-year-old Evelyn Asay's fat little "Sargo." Judge Yule paced from one to another in solemn worriment, arms hang ing, fingers outstretched like a house guest looking for a towel. Finally he waved the Purdue entries aside. Josh...
...Unfortunately the family has an inventive cousin who has already cluttered up the house with a shoe-shining device that pops out of the wall, a musical chair that plays when rocked, a rattrap shaped like an egg beater (supposed to fool the rats, it fools instead the colored maid). He has also put the family into the business of making hamburgers saturated with vodka, landing the Old Man in jail. Wanting to redeem himself, the cousin attempts to psychoanalyze the race horse. His theory is that, having won her first race, she felt cheated when she found herself right...
...affection, brash little Broadwayman Billy Rose proclaimed that, his New York World's Fair Aquacade ended, its vivid, dark-eyed queen, Eleanor Holm Jarrett Rose, would "retire and run our home." Trilled Aquabelle Eleanor: "I had a wonderful dream last night. I dreamed I woke up and my maid said, 'Your bath is ready. And I just laughed and told her, 'I'm never going to get in the water again...
Cartoonists had a field day. One drew a man raising his hat as he walks past a church (says his wife: "Don't do that; they might think you're a Senator"). Another showed a maid telling an early-morning caller, "Oh, no, the Senator's not in; he went to seven o'clock Mass." Mexico's famed, shovel-mouthed comic, Cantinflas, built a skit around a gun-toting politico trading his pistol in for a rosary, added "They're buying holy water instead of tequila now." As with Spain, Catholic liberals have been...