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...Vail, Hirshfield. Of those canvases faintly visible behind the 7-ft.-high string cobweb was a huge new Freudian nightmare by Surrealist Ernst. Painted specially for the exhibition, Surrealism & Painting depicted a nest of multicolored bosomy birds, from whose naked, writhing limbs a semihuman arm emerged to paint its creator's conception of the disorderly universe. In the next room hung early canvases by de Chirico; also three recent Picassos, one of which, Les Femmes au Bord de la Mer, dwarfed, by its sheer creative power, every other painting in the show...
...grizzled, hard-bitten veteran of World War I, Colonel George F. Unmacht, Hawaiian Coordinator for Civilian Gas Defense, is the creator of the bunny mask. With a Jap gas attack always a dread possibility, Colonel Unmacht decided that he "wanted something that would temporarily protect very young children from the effects of poison gas until they could be removed from the gas area." His emergency solution was to set the women stitching together sacks which, when impregnated with gas-resistant chemicals, could be drawn over infants' heads and tied tightly at the bottom. But how would a child like...
...declared that he had been converted to a special brand of "Biblical Hebrew" faith, different from both Orthodox and Reformed Judaism. He also announced forthcoming publication of the first 2,000-odd-page volume of a new translation of the Bible called The Bible in the Hands of Its Creator. Its purpose: to explain for the first time the world's current ills, dispose of the Bible's apparent inconsistencies, in so doing, spell the doom of Hitler...
...long as you can honorably do so, keep Turkey out of war. But if you must go to war, don't fight on Germany's side. With Germany, you lose if you win." -such were the legendary last words of Mustafa Kamâl Atatürk, creator of modern Turkey...
Milton Caniff, the strip's creator, has in year's past been accustomed to send to the crew at Red Top an enlarged, unexpurgated, water-color version of one of his current heroines. Pinned on the wall of the central hall at the New London training quarters are such sultry females as the Dragon Lady, Hu Shee, Burma, Normandie, and April Kane...