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Designing new costumes for himself is the delight of beefy Prussian Premier Captain Hermann Wilhelm Göring. The points of his brownshirt collar (and of his alone) are scarlet. As German Air Minister he affects a topcoat with unique and striking white lapels. He delights in the clucks and murmurs of the masses when he appears in a rakish wild-leder (doeskin) cloak, fastened at the neck with a single clasp. Last week he set the fashion in which Germans condemned to Death will be executed...
Conqueror Napoleon introduced the French guillotine into Prussia. Last week Captain Göring banished it by decree. He substituted the medieval chopping block and headsman's axe. The headsman, he prescribed, must always wear impeccable evening dress...
...showmanship, the judge should first let the dogs be paraded jauntily around the ring. Then he should have them spaced at even intervals, proceed to his examination. A good judge will probably weed out hopeless specimens during the parade. But he should not forget that every exhibitor has paid an entry fee, thinks his dog has a chance to win. So let the judge at least pretend to give each dog a thorough examination...
...town, girls in bright colors walk over the bridge, heels clicking on the walk like little hammers. When there is something shining and invisible in the air over the Stadium, the Vegabond feels as if he were walking on tiptoe. In the gray winter twilight there is the ring of steel on ice and urchins skating, and when the plain of the river is windy in March, and the white birches look naked in the light of the riding moon, the Vagabond walks and thinks in inscrutable things. He may even break into a run if the night is cool...
...that Hitler was angered by the inclusion of Jews in the Festival company, invited by Frau Wagner, were dispelled by the presence of her son Wieland in Hitler's box, announcement that he would remain to hear Richard Strauss conduct Parsifal and Elmendorff's directing of the Ring cycle. Frau Wagner, to whom the Chancellor has often been rumored engaged, was busy backstage during the performance, did not join his party...