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...have good reason for discouragement. He would see a stock market that surges upward under the threat that war may be broadened, a President and an Administration of doubtful neutrality, and above all a people who have not learned that war is more than an unpleasant business of bloody headless corpses, that it is long-range economic suicide. Looking these unpleasant facts in their grimly portentous face, he could easily begin to doubt the possibilities of mere advertising...
...Invisible Man Returns (Universal). People who enjoy seeing newspapers unfold themselves in midair, windows open without human assistance, unfilled suits of clothing perambulate through the landscape and an invisible hand unwind a thick swathing of head bandages and leave a headless jacket will experience a deep satisfaction at this pseudo-scientific thriller. In The Invisible Man (1933) invisibility caused the patient's death. No such silly boner is made this time. An antidote for invisibility is found, thus insuring Universal studio of the possibility of sequels as long as public interest in invisibility lasts...
...record of the war-torn peacetime between World Wars I and II looked like 63 minutes of unnecessary nightmare. Scripter Hendrik Willem van Loon, having cleverly piled up the horrors of four revolutions and four wars, rammed home his main point -that war is beastly-with more armless, legless, headless corpses than had ever appeared on a screen before. The mechanical, impersonal accuracy of lens and film was sickening. Though critics praised the picture, audiences stayed away. But for fascinated fans who saw it again last week, World War II had given the film new, terrible, urgent meanings. Pyramids...
...ruined weekend belonged to Mr. Hoover. His Memorial Day holiday in Manhattan was rudely interrupted when the headless, handless, footless corpse of Peter Levine, 12, kidnapped from New Rochelle last February, was washed ashore in Long Island Sound. This was the first recurrence since 1936 of the post-Prohibition atrocities which FBI thought it had stamped out by relentless sleuthing. Last week it was promptly followed by another in Princeton, Fla., a hot-dog hamlet just below Miami, on the highway to Key West. There chubby, blond James Bailey ("Skeegie") Cash Jr., 5½, had been...
...Church showed its astuteness. By a Yugoslav law passed in 1930, the Patriarch is selected by the King from three candidates elected by prelates, Orthodox Cabinet ministers, State officials. The Church hastily excommunicated Premier Stoyadinovich and six of his ministers, thereby disqualifying them and postponing the election. The headless Church coasted along till the Cabinet should come to reason. Last month the Government capitulated, promised that the concordat would be dropped. Within a week the Premier and Cabinet members were received back into the Orthodox Church, the election was held, three candidates for Patriarch selected. Regent Prince Paul chose...