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What Pilot Collins thought of his profession was no secret. "It's a damn fool's job," he liked to say, "but it's easy money...
...tempestuous bird is flapping his wings in increasing futility. Yet most liberal thinkers would hate to see the Roosevelt program scrapped in its entirety, no matter how many stones have been thrown at various parts of it. As Mark Sullivan has pointed out, to make the social reform program fool-proof the Constitution would have to be amended to give Congress power to regulate all business industry, trade, and commerce. But with the states as reluctant now as they were in 1789 to surrender any power to the federal government, there is hardly any hope that such an amendment...
...will deny that the nose has had a significant role in deciding the fate of many unfortunate individuals in Germany today? Racial origins may be disputed, hands may be tied, but emigration statistics in the Fatherland show you can't fool Hitler on what a German's nose should be like. According to one news item, several of the tainted ones have tried to help matters by cultivating a mustache...
...fickle, but that once a man is nosed, all the anthropologists in Africa can't beak the spell. Where the nose has lost much is in its powers of prophecy. Time was, when our nose itched, we knew we were to hear good news be kissed by a fool, or take a long journey. Now we just call it an itch and scratch. That's civilization...
...Lion Feuchtwanger (Power, The Ugly Duchess) and Alfred Neumann (The Devil) showed a renewing demand. Last week's medieval romance. Dew in April, did not assay nearly so high as Power orThe Devil, but it was much solider stuff than last year's highly touted The Fool of Venus (TIME, March 19, 1934). English Author John Clayton, new to the U. S. will not start a critic's gold rush, but Hollywood may well lift up its eyes to his auriferous hills...