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...fight against British Empire and U.S. troops furiously. This fury is born of resentment at having been treated as inferiors. Symbolic of that treatment was the famous 5-5-3 ratio for capital ships imposed by Britain and the U.S. on Japan. This ratio, says Japanese Expert Wilfred Fleischer, "has, in fact, played a much more important role in Japanese policy in recent years than is generally supposed abroad, and was a contributory factor in Japan's reversion to an ultranationalist, militaristic policy...
Artistically, Superman shorts are the movie cartoon at its worst. Superman looks and acts like a wooden puppet. So do all his playmates. There is little that his creators-the old Fleischer Studios (now Famous Studios, Inc.) at Miami, Fla.-can do to improve their hero-even King Disney can't animate human beings satisfactorily. But they did manage to give him a new voice recently. His old one wasn't manly enough. Now it booms...
...Boxing last week got an authoritative bible. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Briton John Broughton's first code of the "squared circle" (later amended by the revised London Prize Ring Rules and the Marquis of Queensberry code), Broadway's dynamic little Nat Fleischer, No. 1 U.S. fistic authority, published the All-Time Ring Record Book...
Besides tracing the history of fisticuffs from the reign of James Figg (1719-34), first English champion, Historian Fleischer has dug up the records of some 1,500 of the world's prizefighters, the measurements of 32 famed heavyweights, the odds on every heavyweight championship bout from Sullivan-Corbett to Louis-Nova, a detailed explanation of the financial deal on the Johnson-Jeffries fight, and many another fist fact. Samples...
...Jackson and Kerr Lee; "We Have A Future," by Norman Thomas; "Berlin Diary," by William L. Shirer; "You Can't Do Business With Hitler," by Douglas Miller; "Good Neighbors," by Herbert Herring; "My New Order," by Adolph Hitler and Raoul de Roussy de Sales; "Volcanic Isle," by Wilfred Fleischer; "Pattern of Conquest," by Joseph C. Harsh...