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After all is said & done, what American would want to think of our leader as a "Superman". . .? We'll be content to leave those attributes to comic strips and Der Führer. . . . Our President is a man, a mere mortal, whose "chickens come home to roost." We don't expect him to be infallible...
...earlier pastoral letter the Archbishop of Cologne had got off a direct and public attack on Naziism: "The doctrine of the superman will not bring happiness and prosperity to men." It went unanswered. This week he joined with the Bishop of Paderborn in a denunciation of Nazi morality...
Refusing to heed Commander Collins' advice to un-single men, "Red" Schutte is horning in on our very own territory. Fifty men in the second swimming group can testify that a certain red-headed JCC (Junior Cadence Caller) refers to him constantly as her "Superman". We recommend leniency in this case, however, Dote, the redhead is not quite five...
What is particularly attractive about "Lucky Jordan" is its sincere effort to be insincere, a happy sequence of events bound together only by superman Alan Ladd and his beautiful head of hair. In the opening scene, he is lucky enough to have his "double" shot instead of himself, just as later in the evening he is lucky enough not to be at home when those naughty men come and torture his would-be mother...
Gentile & Binge's success is soundly anchored to a cornerstone of American character: disrespect for pomposity. And the radio industry provides enough pomposity in a day to keep Gentile & Binge in satire for years. Superman occasionally turns up on the program with a heavy Bronx accent. Guest celebrities are interviewed and thrown out of the studio to the sound of a shirt ripping. Weakling children who eat "Tasty Bread" will not merely grow strong, they will begin juggling locomotives. A new electric iron is just the thing for straightening out crumpled car fenders, etc. Gentile & Binge repeatedly make advertising...