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...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...
...Word (conceived, produced & acted by Jimmy Savo). Little Jimmy Savo with his big black eyes, dwarf's body and appallingly baggy pants has often been called one of the world's great clowns, a pantomimist in Chaplin's class. Highbrows have rhapsodically declared that he brings the Commedia dell' Arte back to one-man life. Hundreds of vaudeville audiences have paid him the simpler tribute of howling when he whispered the song River, Stay 'Way From My Door and shooed the river away with childlike gestures. His last Broadway appearance was in the Rodgers & Hart...
...small Jouet des Plots, stitching along the west coast of Africa; his business was to buy up wild animals for the circuses, zoos, rich amateurs of Europe. He acquired, among other beasts, a panther, a magnificent, tame, young lion, a buffalo, a young elephant, a hyena, a dwarf hippopotamus, two little sacred pythons whose delight was to weave themselves upon his ankles. The buffalo broke loose in the hold, one of the chimpanzees piteously died. Ashore Demaison ran into snake-sorcerers, a terrific flogging scene, a yellow fever epidemic. Demaison gives such incidents their due; but he makes his less...
...square miles of blue, dun and yellow water; of wastes where almost no life exists; of islands where life, riches, poverty are all superabundant. Biggest of oceans, it is big enough to swallow all the land in the world and still have room to spare. Its distances dwarf any that even big-minded Yankees are used to thinking about: New York is 3,132 miles from San Francisco; Manila is 6,238 miles from San Francisco, 9,393 miles west of Panama...
...increasing rate of hydrogen consumption, the sun has enough left for ten billion years. Thus it has five-sixths of its life to live as a normal star. But when the hydrogen is gone at last, it will grow cooler, collapse into an enormously dense, feebly shining dwarf star, with its fragments of ruined atoms crushed tightly together. Such dense dwarf stars are already known to astronomers; one of them is the dim companion of bright Sirius...