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...world's deadliest political caricaturist, little-necked, New Zealand-born David Low of the London Evening Standard, this week published his first collection of World War II cartoons, Low on the War (Simon & Schuster, $2). Low, who has cartooned for 39 of his 50 years, declared war on the Axis long before the Allies did, now doubles as a London fire warden.* German Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, who mortally hates & fears Low's cartoons (note the clubfooted, degenerate dwarf at lower right), had a brief revenge last year: Low came down with German measles...
...English history and those who saw the 1924 version of their story will recall, are valiant English captains who, while Queen Elizabeth haggles over the cost of building a navy to face the Spanish Armada, wage an undeclared war on Spanish shipping wherever they find it. In history, deadliest of the sea hawks was Sir Francis Drake. In the picture, he is symbolized by Captain Geoffrey Thorpe. Sea Hawk Thorpe begins his career by a swashbuckling attack on a Spanish man-o'-war, carrying King Philip's ambassador (Claude Rains) and his proud niece (Brenda Marshall). To appease...
...London young Deodato, escaped from friarhood, seeks his lost identity, gets involved in a slummy, fancy piece of Victorian poisoning, yearns for the beautiful young woman, and exposes himself to some of the deadliest mid-19th-Century slang to be found in any 20th-century novel...
...over the sea west of Namsos roared a wide swarm of Germany's deadliest aircraft of all; Junkers Ju.87 dive-bombers ("Stukas"), which had not been given a major workout since they pulverized prostrate Poland. These speedy, relatively small single-motored ships have stout wings to pull them out of long, steep power dives at 430 m.p.h. Their crews are specially trained to stand the pressures of such performance. They carry only one 1,100-lb. or two 500-lb. bombs. These they aim by pointing the plane's nose at the target during its screaming dive. Theory...
Another Sun (by Dorothy Thompson & Fritz Kortner; produced by Cheryl Crawford). When Dorothy Thompson attacks Naziism in her famed column On the Record, she is one of the deadliest haters now writing. But when, last week, she attacked it in her first play, she seemed tame as tea and weak as water. A dull, dawdling tale of refugee theatre folk in Manhattan at the time of Anschluss (Co-Playwright Kortner is himself a refugee actor). Another Sun told of their hopes & fears and of the dilemma of the most famous of them, who, unable to get work...