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...Napoleon, wear uniforms like the Kaiser. Of all his Cabinet portfolios, his favorites were those of War, Navy, Air Force. He raised a whole generation of young Italians-among them his own sons -to live dangerously, to consider pacifism a bourgeois vice, to take sensuous, esthetic pleasure from the pattern of exploding bombs and the music of gunfire. He told them time & again that supine neutrality is a cowardice fit only for decadent democracies...
...lower-third of the U. S. he is a savior; to economic royalists "that madman in the White House-" This week Commerce Department economists, having broken down national income payments by years, 1929-39, found that, despite marked shifts during depression-bottom years, the basic national-income pattern in 1939 was virtually the same...
...mouse in a labyrinth could not be more confused than many a voteful Wisconsin citizen, thus confronted with a dizzying array of blanks for his X. But out of Wisconsin's confusion the U. S. hoped to make a pattern of political sense...
...staid, collective conformity. To Academicians, as usual, went the pick of the 16 prizes. Painter Abram Poole got a $750 Altman Prize for Young Dancer, a demure Victorian damsel in a flowing pink dress. To the new president, tweedy, grey-haired Hobart Nichols, went an award for Winter Pattern, one of his customary snow-covered landscapes. Said pleased President Nichols: "The Academy is like a pendulum to a clock-it assures a rational, regular, orderly progress. It has no room for experimentalists. . . . The Academy can afford to wait...
...Lamour's glamour neither gains nor loses. Nothing else is missing. The "South Sea" accent remembered about half the time, the scene with the villainous dancing partner and his bull-whip, the application to the great yellow moon sung heath the weeping willow tree--all are in the familiar pattern. The artificial eyelashes flutter and Miss Lamour reestablishes her position as a close second to the Lampoon's Sheridan in Hollywood's March of Crime...