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Authors of The Flat Foot Floogie with the Floy Floy, Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart, do not know themselves what the words mean. Said Slim: "We were sort of talking a new language." The dance they had vaguely in mind was to be done flatfoot. "When we put the floy floy on it, that was extra business. You got the whole dance right there; you're swinging. See what I mean...
...idea where it will have to fight next, but its job is to be ready whatever the spot. Purely on the laws of political probability the army's present guesses rate future wars in the following order of likelihood: 1) civil uprisings on the U. S. mainland- some sort of trouble in the social order; 2) war in South America in case fascist economic penetration rubs the U. S. past endurance; 3) war in Europe or Asia for any reason; 4) least likely of all, invasion of the U. S. mainland...
...monthly contributions to Ladies' Home Journal. Effervescent with bromides, it is less a guide to U. S. politics than to Dorothy Thompson's. Most persistent katydid note is for a liberalism which she defines as "a type of mind, a kind of spirit and a sort of behavior, the basis of which is an enormous respect for personality...
...From it Director Lubitsch would draw a share of profits instead of a salary. Last week the Selznick system of cinematic share cropping showed signs of becoming a definite trend. Agent Selznick announced that Carole Lombard and William Powell had agreed to act in pictures on the same sort of terms. Producer Sam Goldwyn followed suit with a statement that Writer Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It With You), longtime collaborator of Columbia's Director Frank Capra, had agreed to write pictures for him on the same basis...
...enthusiasm, Miss Thompson suggests: "Viennese industrialists might not only bring over their trained employes who would compete with no class of workers in existence in America, but also their lists of customers [in South America, etc.]. . . . This sort of industry does not compete with any existing American industry...