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...island paradise in the Pacific they had come upon Charles Island only to find it already occupied by two other romantic German couples. Arthur Wittmer and his wife, Margaret Walbrol, practicing nudists, lived with their two children in a corrugated zinc hut. Dr. Karl Ritter and Frau Dore Koervin had abandoned their respective spouses to seek Utopian freedom. Dr. Ritter was a dentist. Thinking of life 800 miles from an electric drill, he had all his own teeth pulled, substituting an indestructible set of stainless steel grinders...
...Seattle, city of red hot politics, was in an unhappy financial state. Its credit was at low ebb and its tax anticipation warrants were hardly salable. In that condition it chose for mayor Lawyer John Fairfax Dore who, campaigning on a program of drastic economy, broke all records for vote-getting (TIME, March 21, 1932). Last week Seattle's mayoralty choice rolled around again and Mayor Dore stood for reelection...
...brilliant campaigner. Mayor Dore's best stunt was to print handbills closely resembling dollar bills. They bore a picture of Franklin Roosevelt, were marked in each corner "One Vote," carried the legend "Tax Levy 1931, $10.010.408.01, Tax Levy 1933, $5,289,983.87. Dollars...
Thus did Mayor Dore dramatize his tax cuts while restoring the city's credit. But last week morals were more important in Seattle than money. Besides, Mayor Dore had antagonized many a voter with his salary cuts and his loud talk. Therefore the good people of Seattle uprose and replaced him, 4-to-3, with Charles Lou Smith...
...sedition as a result of his pacifist pictures in the old Masses during the War. (Two jury disagreements resulted in a mistrial.) "Art" Young has two predilections, Hell and trees. His interest in Hell started as a boy when he used to pore over the family copy of Dore's Dante. . His first book of infernal drawings, Hell Up to Date was published in 1892. Another followed in 1901. A third appeared last week.* All these depict the plight of a race of pudgy little people who, all hot and naked, are pursued through dozens of imaginative infernos that...