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Many a man with big ears has become famous,* and Dumbo, who can wrap himself up and go to sleep in his, is no exception. The advent of war made him more than ever a superb expression of the democratic way of life. He could only have happened here. Among all the grim and forboding visages of A.D. 1941, his guileless, homely face is the face of a true man of good will. The most appealing new character of this year of war, he is almost sure to end up in the exclusive kingdom of children's classics...
...half-dreaded goal. As he approached the front door, all Vag's hitherto generalized confusion centered on one specific fear: he had no car . . . would she mind going into Boston on the subway? Of course she would. She had worn an expensive dress at the dance. And a fur wrap too. The dress and the wrap came before his mind's eye in painful detail. Why hadn't he thought of borrowing a car? He was over half an hour late as it was, so maybe she had gone to supper with the other girls, or maybe he had made...
...threat, in Vichy Marshal Petain's Minister of the Interior Pierre Pucheu lashed out furiously at the underground Communist Party in both zones of France. Warned he: "[We] will not permit a political group that was most bellicose before the war, but defeatist throughout the war, now to wrap itself in the Tricolor and provoke incidents between the people and occupation troops on the pretext of patriotism...
...chemical inventiveness of his protege, 32-year-old Robert Allen Boyer (TIME, Nov. 11). His plastic, 70% cellulose with a resin binder, is made of soybeans, wheat, cotton, hides, plus a few imported, now hard-to-get ingredients (cork, rubber, tung oil, ramie-formerly used to wrap Egyptian mummies). Last fall Boyer turned out a few panels, had his lanky boss whang at them harmlessly with an ax, was overjoyed when Ford gave him the go-ahead for a complete...
...Dorothy Christie parlayed a $25 secondhand evening wrap into a $22,500 fighter plane is one of the breeziest inspirations of World War II. The wrap, which, along with other finery and furbelows, Mrs. Christie had forsworn for the war's duration, was sold to an American friend last October. The $25 she got went to print cards that said: "Is your name Dorothy? If so, rally around and help buy a Spitfire for Britain."* The cards, in turn, went to every Dorothy in the Dominion that she and her friends could think...