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...woolen sock which drops a tear-gas bomb which causes a small dog to weep into a sponge whose added weight puts into operation a magic lantern which casts on the book's cover the likeness of a man who has stolen the wife of an angry dwarf who plunges a dagger through the picture and into the book, stopping when he strikes a pet flea who jumped between the pages to sleep when the book was laid down. The flea says "Ouch!" and kicks open the book at the right page...
...mural completed last spring entitled "The Ring of the Niebelungen" represents the dwarf ruler Alberich whipping his workers in order to speed up their creation of destructive wealth, symbolized by the Ring forged from the Rhine gold. The artist is here attempting to present the struggle between creative science and material greed, not, as some one tried to interpret it, a comparison between the treatment of regimented and unregimented workers in contemporary Germany. At the left of the main part of the mural, Alberich's hand tries to grasp the Rhine gold, reaching up from sea-green water, while maidens...
...daughter-are nowhere in sight, but Boom's ladies, disgusted with their chicken-hearted husbands, are waiting outside the gates. They present their guests with the key to the city, and that night, while the Mayor writhes in impotent fury, the Duke, his hungry friar, his lecherous little dwarf and all his soldiers are royally entertained. Next morning, the strangers troop away across the plains and Boom's burghers come out to face their wives. The Mayor's wife makes a generous speech giving him the credit for saving the town from the horrors of a siege...
Next day official Moscow papers lashed Dr. Goebbels by calling him "a bowlegged dwarf with an enormous, ridiculous hook nose," and described his words as "malodorous filth." Shocked chancelleries all over Europe could not recall when two Great Powers had last traded such gutter talk officially. But if Stalin and Hitler were really sore at each other, the Soviet Ambassador to Germany, Comrade Jacques Suritz, a Jew who is permitted to keep Aryan housemaids in his Embassy only by special permission of the Realmleader, might lose that privilege and even be sent packing back to Moscow. Packing back to Berlin...
...play to the medical profession has proved almost as good promotion as the discovery in some old Philip Morris copy of a picture of a bellhop over the caption, "Call for Philip Morris." The best live bellhop in Manhattan was then found in the person of a dwarf named John Roventini, whose bellhopping ability was famed far beyond the Hotel New Yorker, where he worked. He is now 25, weighs 54 lb., stands 3 ft. 7 in. high. Known far & wide as Johnnie Morris, he pipes his call over :he radio, passes out packs of cigarets at Banquets, luncheons, openings...