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...earlier Franklin Roosevelt had shown irritation at his press conference when a reporter, noting that the President had seen at least one New York politico nearly every day for days on end, asked if he planned to support Senator Mead. Testily the President replied that he had read some fool stories about an alleged struggle for Democratic Party leadership in New York, but that he was busy being President...
Laugh, Town, Laugh is a likable vaudeville, with Master of Ceremonies Ed Wynn providing the twists, and performers of all nations supplying the turns. Arrayed in his usual unusual costumes and equipped with a few new inventions, including a collection box that comments on the offerings, the Perfect Fool guides the show insanely from act to act. Wynn is not at his funniest in Laugh, Town, Laugh, but he is funny enough; and his embarrassed giggles help to redeem his most embarrassing gags...
Concealment v. Confusion. World War I's camouflage was chiefly front-line camouflage, designed to fool ground observation or relatively slow-moving aerial observers, and so aimed primarily at total concealment wherein an objective such as a battery of 75-mm. artillery would melt so unobtrusively into its surroundings that the enemy would be unable to notice it. In this respect front-line camouflage has scarcely changed at all. But the coming of the bomber plane has started something new in rear areas. To meet that danger the modern camoufleur has to think of the necessity not of complete...
Tricky Decoration. The principles of camouflage have often been traced, by theorists, back to protective coloration by which nature conceals animals. But much of today's camouflage finds a more apt ancestry in the Renaissance art of trompe l'oeil ("fool the eye") with which tricky 16th-Century artists painted in nonexistent bookcases, windows, benches and tables so naturally that they looked like the real thing. Since modern rear-area camouflage produces many of its disguises with dummy structures and elaborately built alterations rather than with paint, camouflage has become as much the province of engineers...
Dante wrote a wonderful account of it." Devil Bedeviled. "Well," said Heydrich, and a crafty look appeared in his lizard-green eyes, "I would like to make a few suggestions. That old fool, Charon, at the river Acheron. He batted me one with his oar when I protested that he should have a special boat reserved for members of the Master Race. What democratic weaknesses are these! And your centaurs with bows & arrows, and your beds of hot sand and serpents and wasps! What you need here are tanks and flamethrowers and soft-nosed bullets. And why do you maim...