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When Davidson merged his war with the Allied invasion a week or so ago, he could speak French well enough to fool a German. He had also acquired 4,000 francs. He explained: "I taught some of my French friends to play poker...
After seven years' absence, The Perfect Fool was back on the air last week. This time Ed Wynn's giggle and lisp, his affectionate idiocy were selling milk (Borden) instead of gasoline (Texaco), as King Bubbles of Happy Island (Blue Network, Fri., 7 p.m., E.W.T.), where refugees from Worry Park ("Step Mournfully, Please") play make-believe. Though his new program is heavy-laden with Elsie the Cow, singers of both sexes and commercials which are part of the plot, Ed Wynn manages, as he has for 42 years of show business, to make the show entirely...
...Douglas Fairbanks pictures. When the spurious prince sets out to seduce the queen of the dancing girls (Marlene Dietrich), he chucks her roguishly under the chin, calls her "my lady of the moonlight," and describes the lyric delights of life in his mythical kingdom. When he wishes to fool the ruthless Grand Vizier (Edward Arnold), he shoplifts the necessary royal satins, arrives in court prepared to pluck the richest plums in Araby...
...Finland's crisis lay deeper. Watching the Red Army thrusts along the Baltic, even the most myopic Finn could see that soon Finland would be cut off from Germany. The troops, tanks, guns and planes that Ribbentrop promised had not been delivered. Finns could no longer be fooled or fool themselves...
...reproduce this letter in such a form as to make it appear as if it were an original old manuscript. . . . These aged-looking copies were then sent by this bank to their customers in order to promote a loan plan. . . . The copies were so well done that they could fool an inexperienced observer. . . . This bank did not have permission from us to use this letter commercially...