Word: cats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's Madison Avenue & 51st Street, another surrealist exhibition was" last week attracting crowds. Organized by Pioneer Surrealist Andre Breton for the benefit of French prisoners of war, it also had a striking installation: a cat's cradle consisting of miles of string woven all through one exhibition room. As an added attraction a number of schoolboys were employed to play catch with footballs over the labyrinth...
...including the two most famed pundits of the time-Gauri and Vaishnavcharan-declared that this walking pantheon was himself an Incarnation of God. Other pious folk thought him a madman. His strange acts while in trance varied from imitating a monkey to feeding Kali's food to a cat. Later he made fun of people who proclaimed his divinity by pointing to his left arm, which he had broken in a trance, and saying, "Have you ever heard of God breaking...
...Forest Rangers (Paramount) is the story of two fights, of which the first is a Technicolor natural. Fight No. 1 is waged by the Rangers against fire in U.S. National Forests. Fight No. 2 is the cat-spat which Paulette Goddard and Susan Hayward wage over Fred MacMurray, while Rival Regis Toomey watches enviously at the ringside...
...husband Zachary Smith Reynolds. Again from Berlin came news that a dancer had found a hot corner in the impressionable heart of Adolf Hitler. Known professionally as La Jana, she was described as a former friend of the ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm. She is 32, dark-haired, olive-skinned, cat-curved, and is the 18th woman to be dubbed "special friend" of the fickle Führer. Out of their jobs at Philadelphia's Stage Door Canteen marched Jane Kendall Mason Hamilton, famed Washington glamor deb of 1927, and her husband, ex-Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton...
Miss Potter sailed with a lusty boatload of ditch diggers, carpenters, welders, structural iron workers and cat-operators from Seattle. "There were not many women aboard-only a few school teachers and Army and Navy wives, a prostitute and a giggling 250-pound redhead who had arranged her trip through a matrimonial bureau." Miss Potter "heard one well-soused carpenter tell the purser 'Who the hell wants to go up there anyway...