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...Great Dictator will open on a European battlefront in 1912, with Charlie shouldering arms for Ptomania (variant: Bacteria) against the "Alliars." After a series of Chaplinesque trench experiences, Charlie returns home to Ptomania's capital Ptom, soon finds everything being run by a little cock-of-the-walk named Hinkle. When "Furor" Hinkle appears, all cry Hail and even dachshunds must raise their legs. Hinkle's sidekick is Dictator Mussemup of Ostrich, an egomaniac who stops traffic when he wants to tell a dirty joke...
...Raper was careful to point out that thi functioning of sex hormones in Achlya ambisexualis does not imply anything similar in other plants.* Even so hormonic sex can no longer be regarded as the exclusive cock-a-doodle-doo of the animal kingdom...
...Full dress suits, in color, minus collar & tie. Better still, an adaptation of the bullfighter's cock-o'-the-walk costume...
Germany. The old German Imperial Army was cock-of-the-walk, and all Germans, even Socialists, gawped at it in awe. Although the Nazi army (1,000,000 men) is not the old Army's equal either in training or in tailored splendor, it tries to carry on the tradition. But the "Versailles gap" (1919-34), a period in which conscription was prohibited, has left the Germans weak in well-trained reserves, short on crack lieutenants and captains. The gap was not complete, however, because some German officer material was lent to train the Russian, Chinese, Bolivian armies. Young...
Others elected to the editorial board were Jack E. Brenston, Thomas M. Cock, Mare B. Jaffe, Carier H. Leslie William C. Murphy, and Edward J. Botheohild Peter Macgowan and Ross I. Parker, Jr. were elected to the photographic board...