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...responsible for this sort of eat-your-cheesecake-and-kid-it-too is Gagster Don Hartman, who put some of the trickiest comic curves into the Road to Singapore, Zanzibar and Morocco. The whole picture is easy, handsome, unabashed. It was a fantastic idea to festoon a completely unreal version of World War II around Comedian Danny Kaye. The result: one of the few pictures which seem to have been made for a huge audience of soldiers overseas, avid for such funny fare. (By month's end they will be seeing...
...Harvard, Lucius chartered a plane from which he attempted to festoon the late J. P. Morgan's yacht, Corsair, with toilet paper, initiated a poll to decide whether Harvard should trade President Lowell and three full professors for a good running backfield (the motion was lost, 1,234-to-1,227), borrowed and surreptitiously published manuscript poems by Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson. Shortly thereafter, Lucius left Harvard and joined the staff of the New York Herald Tribune...
Sinister Shadow. The guerrilla should wear clothes of neutral color, should festoon himself with twigs, barks, leaves for camouflage. He may signal his colleagues with bird whistles, remembering always to use the calls of birds in season. He never raises his face to airplanes, because a white face may be detected from...
While studying the lymphatic system. a festoon of glands and channels which drains all the tissues of the body and parallels the blood system, Dr. Drinker observed that inflammation in a wound blocks the lymph channels in that part of the body. This blockade does two things. It causes substances, whose constituents Dr. Drinker confessed he does not know, to accumulate in the wound. These substances cause scars. The blockade also prevents the free flow of lymph to the site of the wound. Lymph, in some manner which Dr. Drinker still is trying to learn, destroys germs...
...gentleman with a long white beard and brown dressing gown, dropping a festoon of red paper on a plaster foot and a jumble of wire, was stopping the sidewalk traffic on Philadelphia's busy Chestnut Street last week. He was in a window of Blum's department store, and across the street in Wanamaker's windows were some equally strange displays. Philadelphia's radio station KYW broadcast two haywire programs called "Love on Wheels" and "Love is a Dream," and Philadelphia's newspapers were filled with angry letters-to-the-editor. The answer was that...