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U.S. moppets also contribute hundreds of little rhymes that fit Editor Botkin's definition of folklore: "The stuff that travels and the stuff that sticks." Samples : Eight and eight are sixteen, Stick your nose in kerosene, Wipe it off with ice cream.
Even more interesting than many of the pictures were the Independents' titles and price-tags. Samples: The Startling Discontinuity of Spatial Existence ($750), / Have Lived ($125), Death to the Fascist Snake ($150), Terror ($200), My Wife (not for sale). But there was nothing as startling this year as Alida...
¶Samples of a captured Nazi drug, which is supposed to rival penicillin, were analyzed by British Army doctors, turned out to be marfanil, a sulfa drug. According to the New York Times, marfanil's "curative properties are second only to penicillin" and it is "no more toxic than...
¶ Most routine offering was Show Business (RKO-Radio), a clearance sale of pre-World War I vaudeville, featuring Eddie Cantor, George Murphy and girl friends Constance Moore, Joan Davis and Nancy Kelly. Samples: the principals singing and dancing I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear...
Reported the Stuttgart NS Kurier in a front-page article: "Lots of questions are being asked daily in restaurants, on rail roads, in offices and factories." Samples, with good Nazi replies: